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A report by Human Rights Watch says gay and transgender people in Turkey are subject to “endemic abuses”, and calls on the government to act to protect them. The BBC’s Sarah Rainsford met some of the victims.
“This is my first photograph as a transsexual,” a woman tells me, in her flat in back-street Istanbul.
She points to a snapshot of herself with long-flowing hair and thick make-up. On the opposite page of the album, a man with a moustache reminds her how she used to be.