Turkey: Portugue Tourist Says He Was Jailed For Lookg Gay

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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.

GAY PRI PARA OBSTCTED BY TURKISH POLICE

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.

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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. 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.

TURKISH POLICE BAR GAY AMERINS FROM VISG AEGEAN PORT

''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.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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.

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.

EXPLORE VAST AND HIDN GAY TURKEY

Turkey’s ernment has bee creasgly thorarian and hostile to gay rights, bashg activists over the years.