BIANet.org – Bawer Cakir
The Istanbul LGTB Initiative and the Labor Movement Party organized a demonstration in Istanbul’s busy district of Beyoglu to draw attention to the oppression and applications against transvestites and transsexuals enforced by Chief of Police Huseyin Capkın during the last days.
The transsexuals and transvestites argued in the meeting in the early evening hours on 28 September that every day arbitrary fines have been issued to them under the excuse of disturbing the environment. They announced that they are not going to give way to these applications.