Turkey Heaven For The Gay People of Iraq

After the 'queer' in Iraq received death threats many of the mujahideen, because in addition to actions contrary to Islam they also work in the U.S. military in Iraq.

Now some of the 'Gay' is enjoying their freedom to move to Turkey. In the secular city of Istanbul is a very giving allowances for young children Gay Iraqi origin, they felt comfortable and calm during the Turkish secular state, different from during their stay in Iraq which they say is filled with risks of death threats.

Now a young man of middle and upper Turkish families living together to share a small apartment in disebuah city of Istanbul with five Gay men from Iraq, he alienates himself from the wave of intolerance and said that for the first time in his life he could express his sexual orientation openly in front public.

Homosexual actions are forbidden in all countries in the Middle East, but they can breathe a little after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, but the freedom of the Gay and Lesbian in Iraq did not last long, after the rise of Islamic mujahideen forces fighting As and its allies - they also became the target of the mujahideen.

"I could be tracked down and killed if I admitted I was gay," Ameer said. "But here, in Turkey we feel as human beings and our rights are not guaranteed like in our home country of Iraq."

In Baghdad, he's Gay life quietly, unbeknownst to his family, only he and friends who knew Gaynya only. In Iraq once Homosexual acts are punishable up to seven years in prison.

Ameer has left in Iraq after his family fled sectarian violence, living in Shi'ite areas and working for the U.S. military in Baghdad, the capital of the fortified Green Zone, an area safe for the foreigners there.

The Gay homicides occurred in March and April, where Gay was found six people were killed, four people were killed among them chest written in Arabic with the words: 'deviant'.

Ameer, who had left Baghdad since June 2007, requested asylum and was approved after three interviews at the UN headquarters in Ankara Turkey. He hopes one day he could join other gay couples in the United States.

"Friends and my cousin in the U.S. say that I can enjoy the gay life there, and I do not be ashamed to say that I am a Gay," he said.

But for now, former Ameer enjoy his freedom of sexual deviation in Turkey a secular country whose majority Muslim, which he felt safe and comfortable with the 'hombrengan'nya. To survive in Turkey, Ameer got a little money transfers from his family in Iraq and he did a job washing cars.

"We do not have another worry here," said one Gay Ameer temen named Safwan. "I would think 100 times to return to Iraq." (Fq / aby)