PM Files Complaint Over “Queer” Tweet

PM Erdoğan reportedly filed a complaint against LGBT activist and People’s Democratic Party Beyoğlu District Chair Levent Pişkin over his tweet “I am hunky-dory queer. I won’t learnqueer-ness from you. I am expecting a statement from you”.

The aforementioned tweet originated from PM’s statement “I am a hunky-dory Alevi”.  

Upon the tweet, PM Erdoğan reportedly filed a complaint against Pişkin for defamation via the media. 

“I will countersue PM for humiliating homosexuality,” Pişkin told bianet. 

“Queer-ness is a sexual orientation. This isn’t an insult. By suing me, PM himself has committed an insult crime here. I will countersue this and symbolically ask 1 lira for damages.”

11 years ago

In 2002, PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended “Abbas Güçlü ile Genç Bakış” TV-show where he said the following upon a question: 

“Homosexuals must be protected under the umbrella of judicial regulations. We observe that they are treated inappropriately and we don’t find them humane.” (ÇT/BM)