Tugay Sarac was jt 15 when he first talked about travelg om Germany to Syria to fight for Islamic State.
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AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
It will host two major LGBTQ+ events across July – one is the Lbian and Gay Ftival on 16-17 July, wh the other beg Christopher Street Day, better known as the official Pri day, on 23 July. LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Tugay Sarac was jt 15 when he first talked about travelg om Germany to Syria to fight for Islamic unlike his iends at the time, Sarac had turned to radil Islam as a way of avoidg g to terms wh his sexualy. “I had iends who, like me, were really radil extremists and even nsired gog to Syria or to Palte to fight, ” he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn a quiet rner of the prayer room of Berl’s Ibn Rhd-Goethe 20, Sarac, who was born Berl to a Turkish fay, learned om an early age that homosexualy was wrong - and un-Islamic.
“I thought beg gay is bad and that through Islam, by prayg to God, I uld cure myself and bee normal.
I was really ashamed of my gay thoughts.