Rters Pictur - GAY-PRIDE/TURKEY

Contents:

• TURKISH GAY PRI MARCH DRAWS THOANDS
• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
• DOZENS TAED AT BANNED GAY PRI MARCH TURKEY

TURKISH GAY PRI MARCH DRAWS THOANDS

(Istanbul) – Turkish police attacked and arrted hundreds of people at the Istanbul Pri March on June 26, 2022, a sweepg display of vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today.

The same day, Fahrett Altun, Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s munitns director, ma an anti-LGBT speech, sayg that “Fai and children [are] targeted through … tolerance for homosexualy propaganda” and llg homosexualy “ugls. “The fenrs were practisg their right to assembly and standg up for the rights of others a peaceful manner when the police attacked and arrted them, ” said Björn van Roozendaal, programm director for the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA-Europe), who was speakg on behalf of four mpaigng groups.

In practice, however, LGBT people have ltle legal protectn om discrimatn and hostily towards them is rife across Turkey’s nservative hosts hundreds of LGBT refuge om other untri, cludg om neighbourg Iran, where homosexualy is punishable by ath. From Istanbul to Izmir, thoands of Turkish activists took to the streets prott to memorate lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Pri month June. In March 2021, after the ernment received wispread domtic and ternatnal cricism for whdrawg om the Council of Europe Conventn on Preventg and Combattg Vlence agast Women and Domtic Vlence (known as the Istanbul Conventn), officials rpond wh an anti-LGBT statement and clared that they whdrew om the nventn bee is beg hijacked by groups to normalize homosexualy.

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

Homophobic ernment statements like the have reverberatg effects the public sphere, where LGBT rights groups have documented a dramatic rise anti-LGBT rhetoric the news. On Thursday, a majory of European Unn lears vowed to ntue batg discrimatn agast the LGBTI muny a jot letter amid a standoff wh Hungary, whose parliament last week approved a bill that bans the distributn of material schools emed to promote homosexualy or genr change.

Revelers walk the streets Sunday at the nth annual Turkish Gay Pri Para, the only march of s kd a Mlim untry.

STORY HIGHLIGHTSIstanbul se s nth annual gay pri para"We're everywhere, get ed to , " one sign readThe march is the only one of s kd a majory-Mlim untry Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Thoands of Turks marched through Istanbul a monstratn llg for improved rights and greater social acceptance for the untry's homosexual muny. Activists say the annual Turkish Gay Pri Para, now s nth year, is the only march of s kd a majory-Mlim untry.

A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS

Several thoand supporters of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr rights rried signs and rabow flags as they ma their way down one of Istanbul's bit pestrian thoroughfar.

Participants chanted slogans agast harassment and blew whistl, waved large rabow flags and rried signs Turkish and English that sported msag like "We're everywhere, get ed to " and "Dance, dance, agast homophobia, dance.

His se was featured an Amnty Internatnal report on the stat of gays, lbians, and transsexuals Turkey tled "Not An Illns, Nor A Crime. " The report says later emerged that the prosecutor's office erroneoly transferred the plat to another office and failed to vtigate the claims, what some activists view as the unwillgns of the thori to nont homophobic vlence. Gay rights anizatns have acced Turkey's ernment of exprsg hostile attus toward the untry's homosexual muny.

DOZENS TAED AT BANNED GAY PRI MARCH TURKEY

"I believe homosexualy is a blogil disorr, an illns, and should be treated, " she said a 2010 terview wh the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet. " In accsn talks wh the European Unn, Turkey has been gradually improvg s rerd on homosexualy as mak chang to nform to EU policy on human rights laws. ]Townhoe Exeter Exeter, Devon, UKTownhoe Exeter is a gay-owned, gay-iendly, 9-bedroom guthoe tucked away a quiet rner of Exeter's cy centre.

In an attempt to help terme the worst plac for gay travelers, the duo created the 2019 LGBTQ+ Danger Inx, rankg the world’s most dangero—and saft—untri for gay travelers. The journalists looked at the top 150 most-vised untri the world by the number of g tourists, then ranked them g eight factors, cludg laws agast gay relatnships, legal protectn agast discrimatn and more.

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