Derya Yanık, Family Minister of the government who has made many concessions on LGBT issues in the context of keeping up with the European Union criterias since it came to power in 2002, could not take a clear stance against sexual deviants with her latest statements. Derya Yanık's controversial statements to a newspaper were met with great satisfaction by those advocating LGBT deviance. Pro-LGBT media organs, on the other hand, announced the development with fancy expressions such as "Surprise LGBT move from AKP", "Minister of Family criticized those who marched against LGBT".
“WE FIND HATE SPEECH AGAINST LGBT FALSE”
Commenting on the anti-LGBT family march held in Istanbul last Sunday, Derya Yanık made the following statements: “Every group has the right to protest. I find hate speech wrong. I am a lawyer and most of my profession has been based on human rights. We find hate speech wrong no matter who against it is. Social media is used as a very provocative medium. This is not right to prove the these issues there. The government has neither the luxury nor the right to give up any of its citizens. Authorities point out that the issue of gender is psychological, not a biological pathology,” she said.
HIGHLIGHTED FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS
Derya Yanık, who drew reactions with her statements on LGBT, stated that the state has an obligation to protect fundamental human rights.
Yanık, “Everyone has a system of values. You have the freedom to criticize within the framework of this system of values. Our government naturally has values as well. We do not have the luxury of normalizing or seeing homosexuality as normal. The state has an obligation to protect and deliver fundamental human rights,” she added.
MAKING A SECOND EXPLANATION, SHE SAID THAT HER FIRST EXPLANATION WAS WRONG
In the statements she made later yesterday, Minister Yanık stated that her statements were distorted and taken to the wrong places and that they did not have a perspective such as normalizing LGBT.