https://urania.institute/en/categories/turkish-queer-history/Recent content in Turkish-Queer-History on UrániaHugoen-usSun, 07 Dec 2025 22:45:37 +0700https://urania.institute/en/posts/courses/turkish/ataturk/Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:45:37 +0700https://urania.institute/en/posts/courses/turkish/ataturk/<p>In this article, we first briefly look at the biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, his personality, and his short family life. Then, drawing on memoirs, diplomatic documents, and historians&rsquo; works, we trace the origins and evolution of the claim that he may have been homosexual or bisexual.</p>https://urania.institute/en/posts/courses/turkish/shah/Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:45:37 +0700https://urania.institute/en/posts/courses/turkish/shah/<p>More than 480 years ago in the Ottoman Empire, the poet Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey wrote a poem about love between two men — a story of a poor man’s passion for a noble, beautiful youth. In the sixteenth century, when people in Europe were persecuted and executed for similar themes, Yahya described male love in an elegant allegorical verse form — and, as far as we know, he was not punished for it.</p>https://urania.institute/en/posts/courses/turkish/mehmed/Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:45:37 +0700https://urania.institute/en/posts/courses/turkish/mehmed/<p>Byzantine authors of the 15th century remembered Mehmed II not only as the conqueror of Constantinople. Their texts also contain stories about his attraction to young men and about a possible intimacy with Radu the Handsome, the brother of Vlad Dracula.</p>