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Contents:

• TURKEY LGBT: POLICE E FORCE TO BREAK UP GAY PRI RALLY ISTANBUL
• TURKISH GAY PRI MARCH DRAWS THOANDS
• GAY PRI PARA OBSTCTED BY TURKISH POLICE
• TURKISH POLICE FIRE PEPPER SPRAY AT GAY PRI PARA
• TURKEY GAY PRI PARA MARCH DRAWS THOANDS ISTANBUL
• IN TURKEY, ’S NOT A CRIME TO BE GAY. BUT LGBT ACTIVISTS SEE A RISG THREAT.

TURKEY LGBT: POLICE E FORCE TO BREAK UP GAY PRI RALLY ISTANBUL

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. Police Turkey have fired tear gas at monstrators at a Gay Pri rally Pri march have been banned the Turkish cy of Istanbul sce 2015.

TURKISH GAY PRI MARCH DRAWS THOANDS

Homosexualy is not illegal Turkey but Print Recep Tayyip Erdogan's lg AK Party is rooted nservative Islam. (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

People take part the Gay Pri Para on Istiklal Avenue Istanbul on Sunday.

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. 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.

TURKISH POLICE FIRE PEPPER SPRAY AT 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. " 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.

TURKEY GAY PRI PARA MARCH DRAWS THOANDS ISTANBUL

The polil impact of gay marriage. 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 wh the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet. The dancer, who wears a head srf daily life, said that Islam and homosexualy are not ngo. " 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.

IN TURKEY, ’S NOT A CRIME TO BE GAY. BUT LGBT ACTIVISTS SEE A RISG THREAT.

Many marchers on Sunday me out to improve social nscns of homosexualy. Gay pri para obstcted by Turkish police.