Advancing LGBT Rights in Turkey: Tolerance or Protection?

被引：7
作者：
Arat Z.F.K. [1 ]
Nuňez C. [1 ]
机构：
[1] University of Connecticut, 365 Fairfield Way, Unit 1024, Storrs, 06269-1024, CT
来源：
Human Rights Review | 2017年 / 18卷 / 1期
关键词：
Affect; Biopower; Discrimination; Homophobia; Human rights; LGBT; Tolerance; Turkey; Violence;
D O I：
10.1007/s12142-016-0439-x
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摘要：
Tolerance is treated as a virtue and a key principle in liberal theories of the state and human rights. Critics of liberalism have already addressed limitations of tolerance, and the United Nations (UN) introduced broader and more inclusive human rights and non-discrimination norms. Yet, tolerance is still invoked in human rights advocacy, and the UN promotes teaching tolerance as a means to protect human rights. However, there is an asymmetrical relationship between the “tolerant” and the “tolerated,” which must be questioned for its human rights implications. The paper contends that tolerance does not ensure non-discrimination, freedom from persecution, or ending violence. Instead, it can be complicit in violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons. As an illustrative case, it examines Turkey—a country that has pursued the liberal policy of tolerance by not criminalizing homosexuality—during a reform period that involved further liberalization of law but not the protection of LGBT rights. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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