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The Wider Image: For Turkish performer, drag is a political

Ilker Yazici, 23, a drag performer whose stage name is Miss Putka, exercises at a fitness studio in Istanbul, Turkey, November 10, 2023. Many in Turkey's LGBT community live in fear after last year's election campaign when President Tayyip Erdogan described LGBT groups as deviants and vowed to strengthen traditional family values. Homosexuality is not a crime in Turkey, but hostility to it is widespread. "When I go on stage as a drag queen, the make-up makes me feel like I am hiding behind a mask," Ilker said. "Miss Putka is a confident person, very open to communication. I am not." REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya

The Wider Image: For Turkish performer, drag is a political

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