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• TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY
• GAY PRI PARA OBSTCTED BY TURKISH POLICE
• TURKISH POLICE BAR GAY AMERINS FROM VISG AEGEAN PORT
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• EXPLORE VAST AND HIDN GAY TURKEY

TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY

A 34-year-old Portugue man was arrted by the police while vatng Turkey bee he "looked gay", Portugue media reported. "They thought I was gog to jo an unthorised LGBTQI+ march nearby bee I looked gay. READ MORE: Turkish polil lear: Greeks, Romans and Amerins are "gay gods the East Mederranean.

(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.”. 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.

Homosexualy is legal Turkey but official opposn to the LGBT muny has grown recent years. "Image source, RtersImage ptn, Print Erdogan has been acced of stokg homophobic sentiment TurkeyIn a speech July last year, Mr Erdogan acced LGBT activists of unrmg "our natnal and spirual valu" and "poisong" young latt statement follows weeks of protts at Bogazici Universy over the appotment of Prof Melih Bulu as rector. Gay pri para obstcted by Turkish police.

GAY PRI PARA OBSTCTED BY TURKISH POLICE

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7, 2000See the article s origal ntext om September 7, 2000, Sectn A, Page 6Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal Turkish police barred several hundred gay Amerins today om visg tourist s near an Aegean port, Kadasi, and orred them back aboard their cise ship, promptg plats om the State Department, officials of the tourists, who are on what travel operators say is the largt gay cise to vis Turkey, were round up om lotns ashore, orred to board their b and rted by the police back to the ship, acrdg to State Department and Whe Hoe officials, as well as people who spoke wh passengers were prevented om leavg the area where their ship, the Olympic Voyager, was docked.

TURKISH POLICE BAR GAY AMERINS FROM VISG AEGEAN PORT

About 800 gay tourists are on the cise.

But she disputed a suggtn that Turks were not tolerant of gays and noted that the beach rort of Bodm, not far om Kadasi, also near Samos, was popular among homosexual tourists. ''There are hundreds of thoands of gays Turkey, '' Ms. ''David Mixner, a gay Democratic Party mpaigner who spoke by telephone wh the tour anizer Turkey, said the Turkish police had told the tourists that they were not allowed ashore bee of their homosexualy.

''They were not allowed off the ship bee they were gay, '' Mr. In promotnal material, Atlantis, the largt Amerin tour operator that ters to gays, scribed the trip as ''unlike any Atlantis has ever offered. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 6 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Turkish Police Bar Gay Amerins From Visg Aegean Port.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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. ISTANBUL -- Turkish police stopped activists for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex rights om gatherg large numbers for LGBT pri Istanbul on Sunday, but smaller groups ma impromptu prs statements fyg a ban imposed by the ernor. Organizers of the 2017 Istanbul LGBTI+ Pri had vowed to march central Taksim Square, g a Turkish hashtag for "we march, " spe the ban on gay pri observanc orred by the Istanbul ernor's office for the third year a tablished checkpots the area, preventg groups om enterg Istiklal Avenue and turng back dividuals who were emed to be associated wh the planned march.

EXPLORE VAST AND HIDN GAY TURKEY

Turkish rt police officers block an accs to Istiklal avenue to prevent LGBT rights activists om gog ahead wh a Gay Pri annual para on June 25, 2017 Istanbul, a day after was banned by the cy ernor's office. At least a hundred protters gathered a nearby neighborhood, beatg dms and chantg slogans such as, "Don't be quiet, shout out, gays exist! A pla-cloth police officer kicks a member of a group of LGBT rights activist as Turkish police prevent them om gog ahead wh a Gay Pri annual para on June 25, 2017 Istanbul, a day after was banned by the cy ernor's office.

Homosexualy has been legal Turkey sce the republic's foundg more than ne s ago. Moskva River & Grand Kreml PalaceGay Rights and the Suatn RsiaThe UK Foreign Office reports that "Homosexualy is legal Rsia, but there is still tolerance among some sectns of the populatn.