Today Turkey is one of the few Muslim-majority countries in which same-sex sexual acts, counternormative sexual identities, and expressions of gender nonconformism are not illegal, yet are heavily constrained and controlled by state institutions, police forces, and public prosecutors. For more than a decade Turkey has been experiencing a “queer turn”—an unprecedented push in the visibility and empowerment of queerness, the proliferation of sexual rights organizations and forms of sociabilities, and the dissemination of elements of queer culture—that has engendered both scholarly and public attention for sexual dissidents and gender non-conforming individuals and their lifeworlds, while it has also created new spaces and venues for their self-organization and mobilization. At the point of knowledge production and writing, this visibility and the possible avenues of empowerment that it might provide have been in jeopardy: not only do they appear far from challenging the dominant norms of the body, gender, and sexuality, but queerness, in all its dimensions, has become a preferred target for Islamist politics, conservative revanchism, and populist politicians.

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土耳其的酷儿时代

今天，土耳其是少数穆斯林占多数的国家之一，在这些国家中，同性性行为、反规范性身份和不符合性别规范的表达并不违法，但受到国家机构、警察部队和检察官的严格限制和控制。十多年来，土耳其一直在经历一个“酷儿转变”——前所未有地推动酷儿的知名度和赋权，性权利组织和社交形式的扩散，以及酷儿文化元素的传播——这导致了性异见者和性别不合规个人及其生活世界受到学术界和公众的关注，同时也为他们的自我组织和动员创造了新的空间和场所。在知识生产和写作的点上，