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Turkey’s massive anti-queer crackdown is lambasted by UN experts · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: Hi there, I'm Kev McGrath. Coming up, it's Spirit Day,
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  Speaker 3: but that's nothing to do with vodka. First, though, Turkey's
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  Speaker 3: massive anti-LGBTQ plus crackdown is being lambasted by experts from
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  Speaker 3: the United Nations. Over the last month, countless queer spaces
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  Speaker 3: like the offices of advocacy organisations, clubs and bars and
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  Speaker 3: even activists' homes have been raided by police. Websites and
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  Speaker 3: social media accounts have been blocked with as many as
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  Speaker 3: 200 arrests made, all to protect children and families, President
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  Speaker 3: Erdogan reckons. 18 UN human rights experts have put out
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  Speaker 3: a statement saying the harassment's got to stop, as has
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  Speaker 3: labelling the work of LGBTQ plus advocates as criminal or immoral.
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  Speaker 3: This is the European Union warns Turkey's long held hopes
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  Speaker 3: of joining the EU. aren't exactly being helped by all this.
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  Speaker 2: Erdogan is trying to instill Islamic values and he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get along with the EU values. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: join the European Union, you have to demonstrate more democracy.
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  Speaker 2: You can't block internet sites and you can't harass the
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  Speaker 2: LGBTQ community.
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  Speaker 3: Dr Ronan Bar-El from the Open University of Israel, speaking
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  Speaker 3: to i24 News. Being queer isn't criminalised in Turkey, but
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  Speaker 3: so what, really, when you've got this kind of persecution? Next,
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  Speaker 3: claims Azerbaijan's pushing ahead with long-talked-about plans for a Russian-style
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  Speaker 3: ban on so-called LGBT propaganda. This would affect anything judged
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  Speaker 3: to promote sexual minorities in the likes of the media, online,
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  Speaker 3: public spaces and school education, all in the name of
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  Speaker 3: protecting children. Bit of déjà vu there. With fines and
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  Speaker 3: prison for breaking the rules, lawmakers are denying a ban's imminence.
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  Speaker 3: And it's Spirit Day, the world's biggest LGBTQ plus anti-bullying campaign.
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  Speaker 3: This has been a thing since 2010 when Canadian teenager
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  Speaker 3: Brittany McMillan read about how nearly a dozen queer kids
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  Speaker 3: had taken their own lives in the space of just
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  Speaker 3: a month. So she teamed up with queer advocacy organisation
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  Speaker 4: purple one day so that LGBT students could see a
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  Speaker 4: show of support from people who are willing to stand
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  Speaker 4: up against bullying. Ultimately, I want Spirit Day to make
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  Speaker 4: just one person feel a little bit better about his
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  Speaker 4: or herself, to feel safe enough in their own skin
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  Speaker 4: to be proud of who they are, maybe even save
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  Speaker 4: a life.
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