18 days to go to the Webinar. Oguz Alyanak writes of exclusion and reaction in Turkey. Lockdown drew attention to tensions between Turkey’s ruling party Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP) and the Diyanet, the Turkish religious authority. In the webinar, Oguz Alyanak discusses how a moral discourse on COVID-19, which validated stigma against LGBTQIA enabled new configurations of state power. For background reading see https://www.sbs.com.au/news/turkey-s-president-says-there-s-no-such-thing-as-lgbt-and-calls-student-protesters-terrorists/82414faf-0057-41bc-a531-efc1b7e44c7e