Turkey’s far-right Islamist HÜDA-PAR party has presented a draft bill to the Turkish Parliament aimed at criminalizing homosexuality and same-sex relationships.

The HÜDA-PAR is a Kurdish Islamist party known for supporting controversial positions such as the implementation of Sharia law in Turkey and for its alleged links to the Kurdish Hezbollah, a militant group unaffiliated with the better known Lebanese Hezbollah. Although the party has previously supported President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presidential campaigns and candidates from Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the HÜDA-PAR remains outside of Turkey’s governing coalition, the People’s Alliance.

The draft bill in question was signed by HÜDA-PAR Chairman Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu along with three other members of parliament.

The bill calls for 1-3 year prison sentences for those convicted of “marrying someone else by concealing their biological sex”.

Additionally, the bill seeks to........

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