content tagged with anti-lgbti+ crackdown

Nedime Erdoğan answered bianet's questions from prison: "LGBTI+s were born to a mother and a father, and they are in every vein of the society."

During detention procedures, police attempted to remove detainees' allegations of torture from their statements, a lawyer said.

Two reporters were among the detained as a crowd protested the Sep 13 anti-LGBTI+ raids.

Tekerek's interview was published by Kaos GL, executives of which were taken into custody on "obscenity" charges during the sweeping anti-LGBTI+ raids on Sep 13.

Police allegedly obtained the detained individuals' phone passwords without a court order and then added messages and photos in the phones to the investigation file as evidence.

Journalist and LGBTI+ activist Yıldız Tar reflected on the recent crackdown on the queer community.

"No one's family is under threat; we are the ones under threat."

Police raided LGBTI+ associations' offices and gay bars in İstanbul and Ankara. Access to numerous websites and social media accounts has been blocked.