Was Atatürk Gay or Bisexual?
What memoirs, biographies, and British intelligence reports say about the sexuality of Turkey’s founder.
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Homoerotic Themes in Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey’s Ottoman Poem “Shah and the Beggar”
A rare example of 16th-century Turkish literature in which a man falls in love with another man.
The Homosexuality Of Sultan Mehmed II
We examine the sources that mention possible same-sex relationships of the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople.