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Back to EpisodesEvren Savcı on Turkey's LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown
Episode 116
Published 4 years, 8 months ago
Description
Evren Savcı, author of "Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam" (Duke University Press), on shifting discourse around LGBT rights in Turkey and the government's mounting rhetoric against activists.
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