Rape, mutilate and set fire to transgender activist in Turkey – Publimetro Chile

Hande Kader was only 22 years. She was a woman and transgender. But he had the misfortune to be born in a country where most people hate the LGBTI community: Turkey.

they violated, the mutilated and set fire last week. And thanks to this, thousands of Turks were mobilized to protest his brutal murder. She was a sex worker. His friends say they saw the car entering a client whom he already knew. Then his body was found burned and mutilated in the neighborhood Zekeriyakoy in Istanbul. She was identified by her breast implants in the city morgue.

After his death, activists and defenders of LGBTI rights in your country you have expressed several tributes. His name was Trending Topic on Twitter. With the hashtag #HandeKadereSesVer, which means “Give voice to Hande Kader” many expressed sadness and anger over what happened. There are also pages in its memory.

Kader was also an LGBT activist and photographed and filmed in several marches and protests. It was in the Gay Pride Parade in Istanbul last year, where he was escorted by police after authorities fired water cannons and rubber pellets to disperse the crowd.

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homosexual Being is not illegal in Turkey, but sexual discrimination is latent. A Kader was murdered after a gay Syrian Muhamed Wisam Sankari, was beheaded in Istanbul, near where the body was discovered Kader. Sankari was a refugee who had arrived in the city a year ago.

The Pink Life Association and Istanbul LGBTI Network and Gay Pride Week Committee, issued a statement yesterday demanding justice for Kader and others who have died for their sexual orientation. “We are very angry: our dear Hande Kader was burned to death was a person who raised his voice against hate crimes and encouraged everyone to raise their voices also Our marches have been banned in the past two years but… they must be visible to end deaths hatred. we demand justice. for all those who lost their lives as women, trans or gay ”

thousands of protesters for Sunday afternoon is expected in a march to protest against hate crimes afflicting the LGBTI community in that country, he reported the portal “DailyMail”.