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 Serkan Altan, after being granted Political Asylum from Turkey: Serkan Altan, a 25-year old gay man from Istanbul, said that in Turkey, "The police use terror and violence against homosexuals by permission of the central government. Turkey has been a huge prison for all of us, most of all for homosexuals." Altan told how, during a 1989 police raid on homes of gay men, "a 17 year-old gay boy committed suicide by jumping from a sixth floor balcony in order not to be tortured by the police chief who had tortured him before." "The Turkish government approves of the abuse," Altan said, "and doesn't allow us to speak out. Gays are in fear all the time." From: Gay Today Archives _________________________  |
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