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Demet Demir was born on 12 March, 1961. Discover Demet Demir's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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1999

In 1999, Demir became a candidate at the Beyoğlu City Council elections for the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP), thus becoming the first transgender candidate to run in any general election in Turkey. She was unsuccessful. In 2007, she unsuccessfully ran for the position of deputy in Isparta. In 2008, Demir and other transgender activists created LGBTT Istanbul.

1997

In 1997, OutRight Action International (formerly International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) awarded Demir with the Felipa de Souza Award.

Demir was again physically abused and arrested on 12 July 1997 when she tried to stop police from beating a girl who was selling handkerchiefs, made by transgenders to earn a livelihood, outside of prostitution. She was coming out of a workshop, organized to promote employment skills of the transvestite and transsexual community. Demir noted it to be the culmination of the varied forms of hasslings, she was subject to, for her activism and subsequently, sued the Beyoğlu District Police Bureau. The case was repeatedly postponed before the court ruled in her favor in 2003 and awarded a 21 year sentence to Ulusoy, which was immediately vacated by the government under an amnesty provision.

1995

Demir stood up for the rights of transsexual sex workers in 1995, when they were being arrested (and evicted) in order to "clean up" the neighborhood to organise the United Nations Habitat Conference, thus bringing greater visibility to transgender rights in Turkey. In 1996, she underwent a sex reassignment surgery to get a woman identity card and subsequently freelanced at workshops and press studios, before joining a company to avail of future retirement benefits.

1991

In 1991, Demir was again imprisoned for two months and tortured by Süleyman the “Hose” Ulusoy, the then police chief of Beyoğlu, who had a fearsome reputation for his acts of violence against transvestites. She thus became the first person to qualify as an Amnesty prisoner of conscience and thereafter, Amnesty International included homosexuality on their list of political crimes. Whilst she tried to take legal action, she was unsuccessful.

1989

Thereafter, she joined the Radikal Demokratik Birlik, who was responsible for initiating the first movement in Turkey to eliminate discrimination and violence against LGBT people and other minorities. She grew more aware of the perpetuation of systemic violence by the state against minorities and learned about the concepts of feminism, environmentalism, militarism et al. In 1989, Demir joined Human Rights Association, where she contributed in the setting up of the Sexual Minorities Commission and other similar platforms with fellow feminists Ayşe Düzkan, Filiz Karakuş et al and eventually became HRA's first transvestite delegate. Her efforts were mostly unsuccessful due to exclusion by the socialist majority. In the same year, she was subject to active discrimination (and subsequent torture), while attending a court trial on behalf of HRA, since her physical features did not align with her self-declared gender over the ID card.

1983

After coming out of prison, she began to vocally assert of her sexual identity but did not immediately engage in LGBT activism. According to Demir, the spans were oppressive for queer people; they were often subject to illegal detentions, physical abuse, active discrimination, forced displacement and sexual assault. She was allegedly tortured in illegal government custody, three times in 1983 and witnessing raids by military police in nightclubs of Beyoğlu and ghettos of Cihangir, to rape homosexuals. She received little support from the leftist parties during these spans who considered trans-sexuality as a bourgeois disease and gradually grew disillusioned.

1980

In 1979, she became involved with Turkey's leftist movement and was arrested on 1 May, 1980 during a demonstration for Labour Day. All throughout, she used to hide her trans-sexuality to gain acceptance within the political movement. Post her arrest, she was allegedly tortured by police, before being sent to hospitals dealing with sexual diseases in a bid to cure her of homosexuality. After the 1980 coup in Turkey, Demir was sentenced to 15 months in prison for her political work, beginning 1982, but was released after 8 months. During her imprisonment, fellow prisoners came to know of her non-hetero-normative identity and she was subject to isolation.

1961

Demet Demir (born March 12, 1961) is a Turkish LGBT activist. She was awarded the Felipa de Souza Award in 1997 for her activism.

Demir was born in Yalova on March 12, 1961. After her parents divorced, she and her sister moved to Istanbul when Demir was five. Demir was assigned male at birth, but discovered her queer identity around the age of 17, on reading about Bülent Ersoy. Her subsequent meetings with similar men over Taksim Gezi Park and nearby nightclubs, that were flocked with queer people, reinforced her preferences.