Piramid LGBT Diyarbakir Initiative is a Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) rights organisation founded in 2008.http://gayarmenia.blogspot.com/2008/11/piramid-lgbtt-worlds-first-kurdish-gay.html

Although various LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 organizations were founded all over Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, Piramid LGBT Diyarbakir Initiative has become the first Kurdish LGBT organization in Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. In 2008 Piramid LGBT Diyarbakir Initiative became the first Kurdish LGBT organization that joined Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakir

Diyarbakir

Diyarbakır is one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey...

. http://bianet.org/english/minorities/105869-a-diyarbakir-outing-what-are-gays-doing-at-newroz

See also

• LGBT rights in Turkey
• List of LGBT rights by region
• LGBT community

Sources

• news.kaosgl.com, KAOS GL web site in English
• www.lambdaistanbul.org, Lambda Istanbul web site in English and Turkish

External links

• Piramid Diyarbakir, Piramid LGBT Diyarbakir Initiative homepage in Turkish