Turkish Court Jails 16 in Izmir After Raids on LGBTQ+ Groups
The operation covered 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses as prosecutors investigate alleged prostitution and obscenity offenses.
- On Monday, a Turkish court ordered 16 people remanded in jail in Izmir under the "My Family is Safe" operation, which targeted LGBTQ associations across the western province.
- Justice Minister Akin Gurlek reported Sunday that investigations coordinated across 15 provinces involve 162 suspects, nine associations, and 13 businesses, with 26 detained in Istanbul and 21 in Ankara.
- Prosecutors allege offenses including prostitution and obscenity, claiming the operation protects children; the government states it aims to safeguard family values and children.
- The Turkish Human Rights Association described the operation as "state-led discrimination, politics of fear and the dismantling of civil society," while rights groups accuse the government of targeting the LGBTQ community.
- President Tayyip Erdogan promotes a "Decade of Family and Population" aimed at tackling ageing demographics; Nacho Sanchez Amor of the European Parliament called the arrests "a shocking escalation" of repression.
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The police operations were carried out in the name of protecting the traditional family.
Nacho Sanchez Amor, the European Parliament's standing rapporteur on Turkey, called the arrests a "shocking escalation" of the repression against the LGBTQI+ community. The post Turkey: Court orders pre-trial detention of 16 people in Izmir - Raids on LGBTQI+ community venues appeared first on in.gr.
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NettavisenA court has ordered the detention of 16 people pending trial in the western Turkish province of Izmir, as the government has carried out a sweeping crackdown on the country's queer community.
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