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The prence of a Turkish boat at the Amsterdam Gay Pri para is a massive step forward for homosexual Turks and homosxal Mlims at large. Its gratn, however, has not been whout s crics. 

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GAY PRI PARA OBSTCTED BY TURKISH POLICE

Turkey’s lg AKP Party has cracked down and supprsed gay rights and Pri Month for a unr an creasgly thorarian agenda. * turk gay parade *

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.

TURKEY GAY PRI PARA MARCH DRAWS THOANDS ISTANBUL

From Istanbul to Izmir, thoands of Turkish activists took to the streets prott to memorate lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Pri month June. Turkish thori rpond wh a seri of attacks agast LGBT rights activists, lawyers, and journalists; Kaos GL, a Turkish LGBT rights group, reported that the ernment banned 10 LGBT-related events and taed over 530 people jt 37 days. * turk gay parade *

Turkey’s lg AKP Party has cracked down and supprsed gay rights and Pri Month for a unr an creasgly thorarian agenda.

Turkey’s far-right lg party, which is known for s equent homophobic remarks, sent s police to attack a peaceful LGBT pri para Istanbul on Saturday. Turkey’s ernment has bee creasgly thorarian and hostile to gay rights, bashg activists over the years. Government officials have acced gay-rights activists of beg “viants, ” and the lg AKP Party, which has roots the Mlim Brotherhood, has equently phed hate speech agast gay people.

AKP has cracked down and supprsed gay rights and Pri Month for a unr an creasgly thorarian agenda.

OF PRI AND SHAME: THE TURKISH GAY MUNY THE NETHERLANDS

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. * turk gay parade *

Headl 2006 said gay rights were movg a posive directn toward equaly, but gay-rights activists are now beaten by police.

Yet headl of the attack on gay-rights protters were tame at bt, claimg police “break up pri para wh tear gas” – not exactly a full scriptn of what actually happened. “Rabow is not a crime — discrimatn is, ” the marchers latt crackdown me durg a wherg year for gay and transgenr people Turkey, marked by creasgly strint official discrimatn, advocy groups said. Earlier this year, the ernment also whdrew om the Istanbul Conventn, a European Unn treaty aimed at preventg vlence agast women, jtifyg the whdrawal part by claimg that the agreement was “normalizg” homosexualy.

TURKISH GAY PRI MARCH DRAWS THOANDS

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Erdogan, who spoke favor of gay rights nearly two s ago as his Islamist party was g to power, has ed far more divisive rhetoric agast mory groups of late, as his party’s populary is wang and he is seekg to rally nservative and natnalist voters, analysts say.

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. 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.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

Explore our 2023 Global Gay Pri Calendar for the LGBTQ+ muny featurg a listg of 200+ gay pri paras and celebratns around the world. * turk gay parade *

(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.

Gay pri para obstcted by Turkish police.

HOW TO PROVE A TURK IS GAY

2023 / 2024 Gay Pri Calendar and Para Gui. Gui to many of the biggt and bt LGBTQ+ Pris Europe, USA and beyond. When is Pri? * turk gay parade *

Ci celebrate Gay Pri Month. Taiwan mov closer to legalizg gay marriage. Gay men tell of btaly Chechnya.

TURKISH POLICE BREAK UP GAY PRI PARA WH RUBBER BULLETS

People take part the Gay Pri Para on Istiklal Street Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday. Thoands of Turks marched through famed Istiklal Street Istanbul a monstratn llg for improved rights and greater social acceptance for the Turkey’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.

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. Istanbul se s nth annual gay pri para.

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 entled “Not An Illns, Nor A Crime.

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