Posts tagged Turkey

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the current President of Turkey, took the opportunity to denigrate the LGBTQI community of Turkey whilst defending similarly homophobic remarks made by …

by Robyn Kennedy A government ban against Pride events in the Turkish capital of Ankara has been overturned by the Administrative Court. This is the …

Participants in the annual Istanbul Pride march were tear gassed by police on Sunday as they thwarted an official ban on the event going forward …

The event was cancelled by the governor’s office to “preserve public order and keep tourists and participants safe”.

Turkish police fired rubber bullets and used gas bombs to disperse the crowd.

Amir was getting on a old boat to Greece and it’s been a year since he’s been heard from

A LANDMARK ruling in Turkey has seen a father and two uncles jailed for life for the ‘honour killing’ of a 17-year-old gay teenager in …

Popular gay hook-up and dating app Grindr has considered threatening the Turkish government with legal action over their ban in the country earlier this month, …

More than any other city I have been to before, I think I was most anxious coming in to Istanbul. Not because there is something …

Turkey’s fourth annual transgender pride march on Sunday became part of the ongoing protests sweeping the country since May, centring on Istanbul’s Gezi Park. Part …