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Turkey

Was Atatürk Gay or Bisexual?

Was Atatürk Gay or Bisexual?

What memoirs, biographies, and British intelligence reports say about the sexuality of Turkey’s founder.

Homoerotic Themes in Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey’s Ottoman Poem “Shah and the Beggar”

Homoerotic Themes in Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey’s Ottoman Poem “Shah and the Beggar”

A rare example of 16th-century Turkish literature in which a man falls in love with another man.