UNSPOKEN Creating Dialogue on LGBTI Rights in the Turkish Cypriot Community
MedyaMedia Monitoring takipReport raporu ABOUT THE PROJECT:
UNSPOKEN: CREATING DIALOGUE ON LGBTI RIGHTS IN THE TURKISH CYPRIOT COMMUNITY
The Unspoken Project has been implemented by the Cyprus Community Media Centre in cooperation with Queer Cyprus Association and the Thomson Foundation. This project was launched in November 2015 funded by the European Union under the Cypriot Civil Society in Action program. The Unspoken Project aimed to increase LGBTI awareness within the Turkish Cypriot community, especially in the various sectors such as media, education, law and health. The purpose was to achieve social change by combating discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation and improving levels of media coverage and public debate. A number of activities were organised within the scope of the Unspoken Project, which was a 2-year project that included billboard campaigns, public service announcements, seminars for various professional groups, attitude mapping surveys, thematic discussions, capacity building workshops, a roundtable discussion with editors, yearly media monitoring reports, a series of inclusive-reporting trainings for journalists, communication and advocacy trainings for activists, and a toolkit for media professionals, financial support for the participation at international conferences and activities for the annual pride march organised in the northern part of Cyprus.
2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
We, as the project team, would like to thank Boran Şenhuy, İbrahim Ray, Doğukan Gümüşatam and Derviş Taşkıranlar and Magda Zenon for their contribution in the preparation of this report.