Sonntag, 26.06.2022 / 20:12 Uhr

Istanbul Pride March gewaltsam aufgelöst

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Wie fast in jedem wurde auch 2022 der Istanbul Pride March gewaltsam von der Polizei beendet:

 Turkish police on Sunday forcibly intervened in a Pride march in Istanbul, detaining more than 150 demonstrators and an AFP photographer, AFP journalists on the ground and an NGO reported.

The governor's office had banned the march around Taksim Square in the heart of Istanbul but protesters gathered nearby under heavy police presence earlier than scheduled. 

Police detained protesters, loading them into buses. AFP journalists saw four buses full of people who had been held, including AFP's chief photographer Bulent Kilic, who had been handcuffed from the back.

Kilic, who was also detained last year during the Pride march, was in police custody.

Hundreds of protesters carrying rainbow flags pressed ahead with the rally in defiance of police. (...)

The last march which went ahead without a ban -- in 2014 -- drew tens of thousands of participants in one of the biggest LGBTQ events in the majority Muslim region.