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Demonstrations in Turkey after anti-LGBTQ+ police raids · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: out of a policeman's notebook that maybe no one has
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  Speaker 2: seen or heard before. So he got out of the
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  Speaker 2: grave and tended to the man's wound and applied a tourniquet.
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  Speaker 2: He then had to get back into the grave and
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  Speaker 2: after which the incumbent, Dinny Lacey, stepped forward and shot.
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  Speaker 3: Him once in the head.
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  Speaker 2: 13,000 policemen sitting in barracks all over the 32 counties.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up, an LGBTQ plus milestone in tennis. First, though,
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  Speaker 1: tear gas has been used on demonstrators in Turkey pushing
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  Speaker 1: back against anti-queer police raids across the country. About 200
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  Speaker 1: protesters have turned out in Izmir in the west, one
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  Speaker 1: of the areas where LGBTQ plus venues and organisations and
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  Speaker 1: the homes of activists were targeted last weekend. Dozens of
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  Speaker 1: people arrested, with many more facing legal action. The office
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  Speaker 1: of queer news outlet KausGL.org was among those raided. Editor-in-chief
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  Speaker 1: Yıldız Tar says two seemingly innocuous articles are under scrutiny.
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  Speaker 3: One of them is about Agata All Along, a Marvel
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  Speaker 3: TV series, and two lead female characters are kissing each
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  Speaker 3: other and they say that this is an obscene scene.
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  Speaker 3: Another one is from a soccer field. Two male football
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  Speaker 3: players are kissing each other and they say that this
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  Speaker 3: is obscene. So They are basically saying that the very
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  Speaker 3: existence of LGBTQI people is an obscene thing.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to Friends24. And like other queer organisations in Turkey,
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  Speaker 1: the website and social media accounts of KaosGL.org have now
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  Speaker 1: been blocked. A long-running anti-LGBTQ plus crackdown in Turkey, led
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  Speaker 1: by President Erdogan, aims to protect family values. He calls
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  Speaker 1: queer people a deviant movement of perverts. Pride Daily. Next,
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  Speaker 1: a doctor who linked queer people with paedophiles has been
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  Speaker 1: cautioned in Australia. Thomas Brough, who's also on the local
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  Speaker 1: council in Albany, said the plus of LGBTQ plus includes
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  Speaker 1: minor attracted persons, nudge nudge, wink wink, rightly leading to
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  Speaker 1: lots of complaints. Western Australia's state administrative tribunals ruled he's
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  Speaker 1: guilty of unprofessional conduct. It's thought there'll now be a
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  Speaker 1: link to this decision next to his name in the
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  Speaker 1: health regulator's official register. And two out gay male professional
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