- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but restricted for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in Samsun is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Samsun is state-enforced.
On June 28th, 2015, the Istanbul Pride March was violently dispersed by police despite a history of it occurring peacefully with police protection and a trans pride march taking place only days ago without incident. Istanbul Pride has remained banned since then.
Turkey’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce requires online shops to mark LGBT-themed products with a minimum age of 18+. Companies who do not comply have their advertising suspended.
Board members of the ministry agreed that not listing such products with a warning risks children’s ”mental, psychological and social development”.
Right to change legal gender in Samsun is legal, but requires surgery.
In 2017, in response to an ECHR ruling, the Constitutional Court annulled the provision of the Turkish Civil Code that regulates the condition of "being unable to reproduce" in order to allow gender reassignment. The request for annulment of the condition of having a gender reassignment surgery in order to change the identity card was rejected.
Gender-affirming care in Samsun is legal, but restricted for minors.
There are documented cases of puberty blockers being prescribed to minors, and no regulations prohibiting the provision of HRT to them. Availability of all gender-affirming care is quite scarce, but has been covered under Turkey's social security since 2014.
From 2014 onwards, gender-affirming care was covered under the national social security program.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Samsun is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Samsun is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Samsun is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Samsun is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Samsun is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Samsun is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Samsun is illegal.
Until 2015, in order to be exempt, gay men had to prove that they were homosexual by providing photographic evidence of them being on the receiving end of anal intercourse.
Blood donations by MSMs in Samsun is banned (indefinite deferral).
Conversion therapy in Samsun is not banned.