Turkish heart surgeon immediately dismissed from hospital.
Metin Çakır, who worked at Karlsruhe Helios Clinic in Karlsruhe, Germany, but on Monday, April 27, he posted onTwitter: “As a doctor, I would like to state that homosexuality and transsexuality are diseases.”
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A Turkish heart surgeon in Germany has been dismissed from his job after describing homosexuality as a disease, in the same week as Turkey’s top Muslim cleric said gay people bring “illness and decay”.
According to Birgun, Metin Çakır, who worked at Karlsruhe Helios Clinic in Karlsruhe, Germany, but on Monday, April 27, he posted onTwitter:
“As a doctor, I would like to state that homosexuality and transsexuality are diseases.”
The clinic fired him the next day and said: “The statements in question are in no way consistent with the principles of action at Helios.”
The comments by the heart surgeon echo statements made in his home country this week by Ali Erbaş, a top Muslim cleric in Turkey. Erbaş, who is the head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), gave a sermon on April 24 at the start of Ramadan. He said: “Islam curses homosexuality. Homosexuality brings with it illnesses and decay to lineage. Let’s work together to protect people from such evil.”
Source: PinkNews
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