Can we assume that no homosexuals will be in the journalist pool?
Wouldn’t want to upset the locals.
OPINION: Generally speaking, homosexuals may feel a bit uncomfortable in the Middle East.
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Note: Photo included.
“Was Ahmet Yildiz the victim of Turkey’s first gay honour killing?”
By Nicholas Birch in Istanbul
Saturday, 19 July 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In a corner of Istanbul today, the man who might be described as Turkey’s gay poster boy will be buried – a victim, his friends believe, of the country’s deepening friction between an increasingly liberal society and its entrenched conservative traditions.
Ahmet Yildiz, 26, a physics student who represented his country at an international gay gathering in San Francisco last year, was shot leaving a cafe near the Bosphorus strait this week. Fatally wounded, the student tried to flee the attackers in his car, but lost control, crashed at the side of the road and died shortly afterwards in hospital. His friends believe Mr Yildiz was the victim of the country’s first gay honour killing.”