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Students in Turkey Arrested Over Artwork With LGBTQ+ Flags Above Turkish LGBTQ+ supporters march in Istanbul in 2017. According to the BBC, four students in Turkey have been arrested over an artwork that depicts LGBTQ+ pride symbols alongside an image of a sacred Islamic site. Duvar English reports that the collage was part of an exhibition at the Boğaziçi University, where students have been protesting the appointment of Professor Melih Bulu as the school’s rector. Bulu is believed to have links to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AK Party. Under Erdoğan’s AK Party, Turkey has grown increasingly Islamist and intolerant. Although same sex relationships have not been prohibited by Turkish law, the country has become more conservative and hostile to the LGBTQ+ community has grown in recent years. The LGBTQ+ community have been increasingly targeted by hate speech, and crimes committed against them go unpunished. The Istanbul Pride march was banned from ....
BBC News Published image captionA protest earlier this month against the appointment of the rector Four students have been arrested in Turkey over an artwork that reportedly depicted LGBT rainbow symbols alongside an image of a sacred Islamic site. Students at Bogazici University in Istanbul have been protesting against the appointment of a rector. The Istanbul Governor s Office said the artwork was an ugly attack that mocked religious beliefs . The interior minister tweeted that the students were deviants , drawing an angry response from activists. While homosexuality has been legal throughout modern Turkey s history, official opposition to the LGBT community has grown in recent years. The Istanbul Pride march was banned for five years in a row up to 2019. Covid prevented any attempt to hold it in 2020. ....