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The first Political party in the Turkish Republic to adopt a rule where fifty percent gender allocation and a ten percent allocation for LGBT candidates for the June 7th 2015 elections was HDP, this parties manifesto statement was to fight LGBT rights and also homophobia and transphobia...The HDP manifesto During the Gezi protest in Turkey there were various different groups protesting the government and one of these were the LGBT community and they were protesting. Gezi park was a place where individuals made friends with each other, celebrate birthdays, and also flirt. When the breaking down of the park happened the LGBT community in Turkey were one of the first groups of people that joined the protest. In a study in Turkey the LGBT community stated how they saw a different bad attitude towards them from health workers and the institutional structure.

A rising part in LGBT and politics in turkey was when five LGBT activist in Turkey which are Şevval Kılıç Şişli in Istanbul; From Hevî LGBTI member Asya Özgür Kadıköy Istanbul LGBTT Solidarity Association activist Ebru Kırancı became a candidate for the municipal council from Beyoğlu. In Ankara, trans activist Belgin Çelik and Pink Life LGBTT Association's Abdülhalim Karaosmanoğlu were nominated for the municipal council from Çankaya.

A study done by Mustafa Bilgihan Ozturk concluded that LGBT individuals experience discrimination in employment. Ozturk interviewed twenty LGBT individuals in TTurkey and found out that the participants hide their sexual orientation from their families and where they work due to fear of violence or abuse. Compared to this individuals who did come out said how they were discriminated by lot, which also made them lose their jobs. The Human Resource Development Foundation (IKGV) estimated that about 4,000 transgender sex workers were employed in Istanbul in 2011, representing 15% of the total number of sex workers working in Turkey.