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Frequency of Hate Murders by Region and Targeted Identity Frequency of Hate Murders by City and Year

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Samsun Afyon Ankara Antep Aydın 10 Çanakkale İzmir Çorum Diyarbakır Adana Gebze Antalya Hatay 5 İstanbul İzmir İzmit Kuşadası Muğla Target of Hate Murder (NA) Missing or Insufficient Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Data 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Data Sources Operationalization of Identity Categories (Yogyakarta Principles) - The data reported here are gathered from online news media and LGBTI associations based in . - Sexual orientation is understood to refer to each person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to, and intimate and sexual relations with, - The actual number of deaths are estimated to be exponentially higher. The scarcity of data may be caused by the intersection of several factors: individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender. a) issues of visibility in terms of SOGI in Turkey, - Gender identity is understood to refer to each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex b) lack of official data (the Republic of Turkey does not recognise SOGI as categories pertaining to discrimination and hate crimes), assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body (which may involve, if freely chosen, modification of bodily appearance or function by medical, surgical c) systematic lack of attention and reach by Turkish mainstream media sources to regions populated by religious and ethnic [Kurdish] minorities. or other means) and other expressions of gender, including dress, speech and mannerisms. Frequency of Hate Murders by Region and Targeted Identity Frequency of Hate Murders by City and Year

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Samsun İstanbul Adana Afyon Ankara Antalya Ankara Antep Aydın 10 Bursa Çanakkale İzmir Çorum Denizli Konya Diyarbakır Gaziantep Adana Gebze Antalya Hatay 5 İstanbul İzmir İzmit Kuşadası Muğla Target of Hate Murder (NA) Missing or Insufficient Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Data 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Data Sources Operationalization of Identity Categories (Yogyakarta Principles) - The data reported here are gathered from online news media and LGBTI associations based in Turkey. - Sexual orientation is understood to refer to each person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to, and intimate and sexual relations with, - The actual number of deaths are estimated to be exponentially higher. The scarcity of data may be caused by the intersection of several factors: individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender. a) issues of visibility in terms of SOGI in Turkey, - Gender identity is understood to refer to each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex b) lack of official data (the Republic of Turkey does not recognise SOGI as categories pertaining to discrimination and hate crimes), assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body (which may involve, if freely chosen, modification of bodily appearance or function by medical, surgical c) systematic lack of attention and reach by Turkish mainstream media sources to regions populated by religious and ethnic [Kurdish] minorities. or other means) and other expressions of gender, including dress, speech and mannerisms.