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Pushback to Turkey’s anti-LGBTQ+ raids continues · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: out of a policeman's notebook that maybe no one has
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  Speaker 1: one you're listening to right now. Pride Daily. Hi there,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, the United Nations goes nuclear
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  Speaker 1: on Russian homophobia. First though, more on the pushback to
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  Speaker 1: last weekend's anti-queer police raids across Turkey. LGBTQ plus venues
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  Speaker 1: and organisations and the homes of activists were targeted with
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  Speaker 1: dozens of arrests and dozens more people facing legal action
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  Speaker 1: or part of a campaign known as My Family is Safe. Well,
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  Speaker 1: on top of the demonstrations in Izmir in the West
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  Speaker 1: we covered yesterday, more than 150 people have been arrested
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  Speaker 1: in Istanbul during protests outside a courthouse. This man was there.
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  Speaker 1: This is just reactionary policies that the government is trying
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  Speaker 1: to enact. These are obviously unconstitutional. These are against the
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  Speaker 1: law because they can't really touch people's sexuality, but they're
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  Speaker 1: doing this under the guise of protecting family values, yada, yada, yada.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to Channel 4 News. Meanwhile, protests in Ankara, that's
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  Speaker 1: northwest Turkey, have seen five transgender women arrested. Being queer
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  Speaker 1: is legal in Turkey, but President Erdogan refers to LGBTQ
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  Speaker 1: plus people as perverts. Got elections within the next 18
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  Speaker 1: months in what's quite a homophobic country, and maybe all
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  Speaker 1: this will get him some votes. This is maybe one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons why he's going on with this crackdown
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  Speaker 1: now under the name of My Family is Safe, you know.
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  Speaker 1: He's been promising to his voters... and also to some
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  Speaker 1: religious communities who were supporting him, that he would do that.
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  Speaker 1: Journalist Banu Güven speaking to Channel 4 News from Turkey.
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  Speaker 1: The websites and social media of some of the LGBTQ
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  Speaker 1: plus groups and individuals targeted have been restricted. Pride Daily. Next,
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  Speaker 1: a top Russian official at the United Nations nuclear watchdog
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  Speaker 1: has been suspended for calling gay and lesbian people perverts.
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  Speaker 1: Where have I heard that before? This is in a
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  Speaker 1: self-help book written by Mikhail Chudakov, in which he also
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  Speaker 1: referred to same-sex relationships as sinful deviations. I think I
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  Speaker 1: bought their last album. Had the nerve to promote his
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  Speaker 1: lousy literature to a UN youth group as well. The
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  Speaker 1: International Atomic Energy Agency's put him on leave. And defeat
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  Speaker 1: for a bigoted school board in America. absolutely bent over
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  Speaker 1: backwards to stop an lgbtq plus inclusive club being set
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  Speaker 1: up things got legal after boneheads at king george county
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  Speaker 1: school in virginia approved a gay straight alliance as the
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  Speaker 1: known then kept moving the goalposts to block it after
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  Speaker 1: right wingers kicked off on facebook the school was being
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  Speaker 1: sued but now it's back down rather than let this
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  Speaker 1: go to trial And I'm sure all the students now
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  Speaker 1: you tomorrow.