All posts tagged "Justice and Development Party (Turkey)"
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Police Arrest Pride Demonstrators in Turkey
Turkish police detained over 100 people on Sunday following Pride marches in the cities of Istanbul and Izmir. Despite attempts by the Turkish government to...
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Turkish President Gay-Baits Rivals, Labeling Them “Pro-LGBT”
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, facing a tight re-election bid, is pandering to conservatives by linking his opponents to the LGBTQ community.
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Thousands March in Anti-LGBTQ Demonstration in Turkey
Several thousand people took part in a march in Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday that had been organized to call for the government-enforced shuttering of all...
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Turkey has first openly gay parliamentary candidate
— Baris Sulu, Turkey’s first-ever openly gay candidate for the Grand National Assembly elections on June 7, in an interview with The Independent. Sulu is running as a left-leaning...
