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“Speak the Unspoken: Conference on LGBTI Equality and Countering Discrimination in Cyprus”
“Speak the Unspoken: Conference on LGBTI Equality and Countering Discrimination in Cyprus” (Nicosia, 19/10/2017) “Speak The Unspoken:...
Oct 19, 2017
Spring is Here, Prepare Your Rainbow Flags!
Last year, we led the way and established the “17th May Organization Committee”. We worked, gathered and brainstormed together, and...
Mar 27, 2017


ALL FORMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND ABUSE ARE UNACCEPTABLE!
Children are one of the top groups that are exploited and oppressed in the unfair world we live in. Children are not only objects that...
Feb 3, 2017


Billboard Campaign for LGBTI Awareness
Billboard Campaign for LGBTI Awareness (Nicosia, 11/11/2016) “Unspoken: Creating Dialogue on LGBTI Rights in the Turkish Cypriot...
Nov 11, 2016
Homophobic Attitudes are Unacceptable
(Nicosia, 02/11/16) The attack to the “Aunt Mediha, I’m gay” and “Uncle Kamil, I’m a lesbian” billboards in Nicosia, Kyrenia, Famagusta,...
Nov 2, 2016
Unspoken Project was launched on Saturday
Unspoken Project was launched on Saturday (Nicosia, 26/1/16) A new project: “Unspoken: Creating Dialogue on LGBTI Rights in the Turkish...
Jan 26, 2016


Launch of EU funded project “Unspoken: Creating Dialogue on LGBTI Rights in the Turkish Cyprio
Launch of EU funded project “Unspoken: Creating Dialogue on LGBTI Rights in the Turkish Cypriot Community” (Nicosia, 20/1/16) A new...
Jan 20, 2016


It’s time to end discrimination!
During 2011, as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ) individuals we experienced wrongful treatment due to our gender...
May 16, 2012


Michael Cashman defends the law change in the northern part of Cyprus
Last week European Parliament member Michael Cashman met with political leaders and NGO’s to discuss the repeal of homosexuality as an...
Apr 16, 2012
Open Letter to Şerife Ünverdi from 19 Organizations
Dear Şerife Ünverdi, We are witnessing, in shock and regret, your attempt to establish the Women’s Studies Department which is far from...
Mar 7, 2012


Our Proposal for the Penal Code Change was brought to the Parliament’s Agenda
On 25 October 2011, Communal Democracy Party leader Mehmet Çakıcı presented the proposal for changing the Penal Code, which aims at...
Oct 27, 2011


North Cyprus: Withdraw the charges of the arrested men
North Cyprus: Withdraw the charges of the men arrested for anti-gay article 171; remove the last article criminalizing homosexuality in...
Oct 21, 2011


“The Penal Code Must be Updated!”
Since 13 October 2011, we have been concerned while following the police arrests based on Article 171 of Chapter 154 of the Penal Code....
Oct 17, 2011


There Are No Unnatural Relationships but There Are Unnatural Laws!
Article 171 of Chapter 154 of the Penal Code dating from the British Administration in North Cyprus, which criminalizes homosexual...
Oct 15, 2011


HOKI invites the media and political figures to take measures against rape
We have been following in fear and discomfort from the media, the inhumane rape incident which took place in Famagusta on August 19th,...
Aug 26, 2011


Call from Initiative Against Homophobia
On 20th July, we experienced yet another example of dominance over our bodies. Two men were arrested by police force on the grounds that...
Jul 27, 2011


“No liberation on your own, it’s either all or none”
Since 1969, the last week of June, which is known as Gay Pride, celebrates the LGBTQ’s (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Queer)...
Jun 20, 2011


Jurisdiction should judge the rapists, not encourage them
To the press and public, On 01.02.2011, our friend, a trans woman and member of the MorEL Eskisehir LGBTT Group, was attacked and raped...
Feb 14, 2011


“Different Families, Same Love”
With the support of ILGA-Europe, the Initiative Against Homophobia Association (international lesbian and gay organization) held the...
Jan 6, 2011


The 100th Anniversary of 8th March
“Get Your Hands Off My Body!” Dear Press Members, Patriarchy, which has continued for centuries, not only turned women’s body into an...
Mar 5, 2010

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