Who Killed Ahmet Yıldız?

International news media called Ahmet Yildiz’s murder the "first Turkish gay honor killing." The crime and the discourses that unfolded in its aftermath speak to racializing narratives within Turkey, as well as across transnational queer circuits, and to the imagined transnational division of labor between the domestic and the public, where the relationship between sex and violence is used to shore up the West as the place of stranger danger by establishing the so-called "East" as the location of family violence.

Dr. Evren Savci-
Assistant professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University. Dr. Savci’s interests include gender, sexualities, globalization and transnationality, and cultural sociology and epistemology. Through looking at contemporary forms of these practices, she analyzes what stake the Turkish na- tion-state has in regulating these forms of sexuality and theorizes what these "failures" and their persistence tell us about Westernization in return.