Abstract
Abstract Under the current AKP regime, an ideology of Turkish-Islamic supremacy has increasingly been gaining hold in Turkey. This has entailed profound changes across all social segments in the country, with those who conform to the ideology being rewarded and those who do not facing harsh punishment. The LGBTI+ movement, too, has been affected by these changes. The movement has been weakened not only by heavy political oppression, but also by neglecting ideological and practical relations with other—including Kurdish—segments of the social opposition. As a result, Kurdish LGBTI+ people have found themselves distanced from the movement. In this commentary I will describe and analyse this process of distance and removal as a Kurdish LGBTI+ person.
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