Turkish police attacked and arrted hundreds at the Istanbul Pri March last weekend, a sweepg display of vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, as well as journalists attemptg to report on the June 26 event. The number of arrts 2022 is three-tim more than the arrts durg the prev seven Istanbul Pri march bed. Thirty-four of those arrted were youth, acrdg to Kaos GL, a Turkish LGBT rights group.
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Organisers have ncelled a Pri march Geia after far-right monstrators stormed LGBTQ activists’ headquarters and attacked journalists vlence that the untry’s prime mister appeared to blame on the event and photographs showed anti-gay protters slg a three-storey buildg to break to the headquarters of the Tbilisi Pri march the Geian pal, while elsewhere men wh long beards prits’ clothg punched and kicked journalists, wh as many as 20 journalist said he was beaten wh a stick while others reported havg their meras and other equipment jured journalist speaks to the media si an ambulance Tbilisi.
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”This is not the first time that vlence has broken out over a pri march Tbilisi, a cy wh a vibrant LGBTQ muny that has also seen homophobic vlence led by ultra-nservative policians and Orthodox church 2013, prits led a mob chantg “no to gays” durg an attack on a pri para Tbilisi that left s anisers hidg.