Turkish police again rallied during a LGBTQ + Pride march in Istanbul on Sunday, relentlessly arresting more than 200 people, activists and journalists, including an AFP photographer. Before the rally started the rally, the police invaded several bars in Jihangir district, around the symbolic Taksim Square and arrested “by chanceThe people who were there, including journalists and LGBTQ + activists, were found by AFP.
As every year, the “Pride March” was officially banned by the city governor, but hundreds of demonstrators waved rainbow flags in the streets near Taksim Square, which is completely closed to the public. He sings »The future is strange»,«You will never be alone“Where”We are here, we are strange, we are not going anywhere“Then” the protesters marched for a little over an hour through the streets of “Jhangir” district with the support of the residents posted near the windows.
The detainees were taken by two police buses to the city’s main police station, an AFP videographer said.
«Protect our rights»
Kaos GL NGO, which is campaigning for the promotion and protection of LGBTQ + people, counted “52 arrests“, Reports Amnesty International, which claims that theyunconditional և immediate release“On Twitter. «They try to forbid us, to prevent us, to discriminate against us, even to kill every minute of our existenceDiren, 22, told AFP:
«But today is an opportunity to defend our rights, to shout that we exist. you will never be able to stop the votes“Diren adds, using the term ‘any denominator of alter sexuality’ denies the biological definition of sex. According to several eyewitnesses, the police tried not to allow the press to videotape the arrests. Bulent Kilic, an experienced AFP award-winning photographer who is familiar with conflict zones, was handcuffed to his back, his shirt wrapped around him and others loaded into a police van. He was already arrested in the same circumstances last year.
After an impressive parade of more than 100,000 people in Istanbul in 2014, Turkish authorities ban Pride March year after year for official security reasons. On Friday, European Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovi էր called on “Istanbul authorities lift ban on pride march և ensure security of peaceful protesters«. «The rights of LGBT people in Turkey must be protected“He added, claiming that he is”put an end to (their) stigma«.
Homosexuality, which has been decriminalized in Turkey since the mid-19th century (1858), is not banned, but is largely subject to the social stigma and hostility of the ruling Islamist-conservative AKP leader Recep Tayyip’s government. Erdogan. A minister once called homosexuals.to hit«.
In 2020, the Neftlix platform was forced to abandon the production of the series in Turkey, because it was a gay image, it was not given the green light by the authorities. In the same year, the French sports equipment and clothing brand Decathlon became the subject of a boycott in Turkey to send messages of support and tolerance to LGBTQ + communities in its campaigns.
Source: Le Figaro
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