Turkey has banned all forms of public LGBT activism in its capital city of Ankara — because it said such demonstrations are a threat to "public security" and "public sensitivities." The governor ...

ANKARA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he did not "recognise LGBT" and vowed to combat "perverse" trends which he said aimed to destroy the institution of ...

Turkey remains conservative on LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) issues, but on Sunday activists will stage a rare protest in Istanbul, writes Rengin Arslan of BBC Turkish.

ISTANBUL — Police in Turkey detained dozens of people who assembled ... The detentions came amid growing government intolerance toward the LGBT community. Students and faculty at Istanbul ...

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Turkey’s interference with its judiciary deepened ... Human rights defenders were detained, jailed and tried. LGBT pride marches, feminist marches, May Day marches, Saturday Mothers (mothers ...

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ISTANBUL, Turkey – Gay rights groups in Turkey voiced ... an official from Istanbul’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) association, told Agence France-Presse.

Police in Turkey have fired tear gas at demonstrators at a Gay Pride rally in Turkey. Gay Pride marches have been banned in the Turkish city of Istanbul since 2015. This year, local authorities ...