Göçmen İpek, Yılmaz Volkan
a Boğazici University Social Policy Forum , Istanbul , Turkey.
b Graduate Program in Social Policy, Institute of Social Sciences , Boğaziçi University , İstanbul , Turkey.
J Homosex. 2017;64(8):1052-1068. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2016.1236598. Epub 2016 Sep 20.
This article explores the discrimination practices encountered by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals in education, income, employment, and health care in Turkey. Limited quantitative data on LGBT individuals are available in Turkey. This study collected data from 2,875 LGBT individuals through a Web-based survey. The findings suggest that LGBT individuals report perceived direct and indirect discrimination in accessing education, employment, and health care. In a country where LGBT rights are not yet recognized and antidiscrimination legislation covering sexual orientation and gender identity is still nonexistent, findings demonstrate perceived discrimination of LGBTs rarely turns into a legal complaint. Even when they do, most LGBTs in our sample report that they did not feel that the justice system addressed their grievances.
本文探讨了土耳其女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别者（LGBT）在教育、收入、就业和医疗保健方面所遭遇的歧视行为。土耳其关于LGBT群体的定量数据有限。本研究通过一项基于网络的调查，收集了2875名LGBT群体的数据。研究结果表明，LGBT群体在接受教育、就业和医疗保健方面遭受了直接和间接的歧视。在一个尚未承认LGBT权利且不存在涵盖性取向和性别认同的反歧视立法的国家，研究结果表明，LGBT群体所感受到的歧视很少转化为法律投诉。即便他们提出投诉，我们样本中的大多数LGBT群体表示，他们并不认为司法系统解决了他们的申诉。
