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…Leading human rights organizations urge Turkey to investigate the attack against transgender rights activists by police in Ankara in May. The organizations say the police officers responsible for the attack should be held accountable and called for an end to violence against toward transgender people. "Police ought to protect transgender people and their advocates, not attack them," says Hossein Alizadeh, an activist

…Hossein Alizadeh, Middle East and North Africa regional coordinator at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, said that when police turn into perpetrators it becomes painfully clear that official apathy allows leeway for attacks on transgender people. “Police ought to protect transgender people and their advocates, not attack them,” he said, Human Rights Watch reported.…