“These actions threaten the very existence of the LGBTQ+ organizations targeted.”
Turkey has detained more than 60 people and blocked a dozen organizations’ websites by court order. Homosexuality isn’t even illegal there, so prosecutors reach for vague obscenity and criminal-organization charges instead. Shutting down T24, the country’s longest-running independent news site, for “LGBT propaganda” shows the real target. It is anyone who covers these groups at all.