This article provides an overview of the development of LGBTQIA+ representation, as well as rights of the community, in modern day Turkey. In addition, it addresses their contribution and struggles as well as the coalitions they have built from the Abolition of the Caliphate times until the 21st century. Reforms Under Atatürk After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 and the foundation of the Turkish Republic, Turkey's first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk introduced a number of reforms that impacted the view on gay relationships within the country. Atatürk's goal to modernize institutions and cultural traditions was heavily influenced by conservative Western ideals. The Christian-ruling countries did not allow for non-heterosexual relationships and pressed their ideals on the rest of the world. Under the influence of European modernization, Turkey adapted more and more to European clothing styles and made the wearing of hats mandatory. Refusal to wear these in public had legal consequences. Further behaviour such as open affection for the people of the same sex as well as "feminine" behaviour became stigmatized. Changes were made throughout the presidency of Atatürk, however the most drastic was the secularization of a muslim Turkey. As reported by history, such changes done by Atatürk weren't only state changes but social ones, too. These including from the roles religion played in everyday life to the drastically different modernized requirements. In Kemal Ataturk, history argues that "Mustafa Kemal deposed the caliph, the theoretical successor to the prophet Muhammad and spiritual leader of the worldwide Muslim community. He also closed all religious courts and schools, prohibited the wearing of headscarves among public sector employees, abolished the ministry of canon law and pious foundations, lifted a ban on alcohol, adopted the Gregorian calendar in place of the Islamic calendar, made Sunday a day of rest instead of Friday, changed the Turkish alphabet from Arabic letters to Roman ones, mandated that the call to prayer be in Turkish rather than Arabic and even forbade the wearing of fez hats". Norman Itzkowitz pointed out that Atatürk's marriage to a western educated woman played an important role towards the emancipation of women. Republic of Turkey After the creation of the Republic of Turkey, the life of the members of the LGBTQ+ community drastically changed. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Under the presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, homosexuality still went unnoticed. It is unclear whether Atatürk was open or against it, but