All posts tagged "Recep Tayyip Erdogan"
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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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Turkey’s President Proposes Anti-Gay Amendment to Retain Power
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has proposed an anti-LGBTQ “family values” amendment that would deny legal recognition of LGBTQ rights. “The concept of family is...
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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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Twitter flags tweets by Turkish official claiming LGBTQ people are “deviants”
Interior Minister's tweets continue pattern of Turkish officials attacking critics, including the LGBTQ community
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Turkish president accuses ‘sneaky’ gays of poisoning youth, urges people to ‘take a stand’ against them
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attacked LGBTQ people a day after the leader of the Turkish Red Crescent called them "abnormal"
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Turkish government frets that drawing rainbows will make children gay
Children were encouraged to draw rainbows to give hope to people sheltering at home amid COVID-19
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Turkey’s president defends religious leader who said homosexuality “brings illnesses”
Religious cleric accused homosexuality of causing HIV and said it "corrupts generations"
