Turkey Gay Pri Para March Draws Thoands In Istanbul | NatnalTurk

Contents:

• GAY PRI PARA OBSTCTED BY TURKISH POLICE
• TURKEY GAY PRI PARA MARCH DRAWS THOANDS ISTANBUL
• OF PRI AND SHAME: THE TURKISH GAY MUNY THE NETHERLANDS
• TURKISH GAY PRI MARCH DRAWS THOANDS
• GAY PRI CALENDAR
• HOW TO PROVE A TURK IS GAY
• TURKISH POLICE BREAK UP GAY PRI PARA WH RUBBER BULLETS

GAY PRI PARA OBSTCTED BY TURKISH POLICE

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’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. 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.

TURKEY GAY PRI PARA MARCH DRAWS THOANDS ISTANBUL

“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.

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.

OF PRI AND SHAME: THE TURKISH GAY MUNY THE NETHERLANDS

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. (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.

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TURKISH GAY PRI MARCH DRAWS THOANDS

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.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

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.

HOW TO PROVE A TURK IS GAY

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.

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. Aliye Kavaf: Homosexualy is a blogil disorr, an illns, and should be treated.

Gay rights anizatns have acced Turkey’s ernment of exprsg hostile attus toward the untry’s homosexual muny. “I believe homosexualy is a blogil disorr, an illns, and should be treated, ” she said a 2010 terview. The dancer, who wears a head srf daily life, said that Islam and homosexualy are not ngo.

TURKISH POLICE BREAK UP GAY PRI PARA WH RUBBER BULLETS

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. Many marchers on Sunday me out to improve social nscns of homosexualy.

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