Turkey Conducts Unprecedented Police Operation Against LGBT+ Community, Le Monde Reports
The crackdown marks an escalation after years of narrowing public space for LGBT+ expression, according to the newspaper.
Turkey carried out what Le Monde described as an unprecedented police operation against the LGBT+ community on Sunday, September 13.
Le Monde said public rhetoric targeting LGBT+ communities in Turkey has intensified since 2015, with authorities increasingly banning pride marches, prohibiting the rainbow flag and prosecuting associations, and that the latest operation marked a new threshold in what the newspaper characterized as state-driven homophobia.
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