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		</div><p>Activists gathered in Istanbul to promote rights for gay and transgender people before police dispersed the crowd at a pride event that Turkish authorities had banned for the fifth year.</p>
<p>The rally on a side street to Istanbul’s main pedestrian avenue drew several hundred people on Sunday, who cheered and waved rainbow flags.</p>
<p>Istanbul Pride organisers said the city’s governor’s office banned the march from central Taksim district as well as a square designated for demonstrations west of the city.</p>
<p>Police allowed representatives to make a short statement to the media before officers dispersed the crowd with tear gas, blocking the street. Police dogs were also at the scene.</p>
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<p>The Istanbul Pride group said it would continue activism to get sexual orientation and gender identity recognised in Turkish laws.</p>
<p>Amnesty International had urged Turkey to lift the “arbitrary ban” on the pride march.</p>
<p>It said authorities rejected all suggested locations in the city by deeming the LGBT community “societally objectionable”.</p>
<p>Istanbul had up to 100,000 people attend a pride march in 2014 but police have blocked such marches since.</p>
<p>Though homosexuality has been legal in Turkey for decades, rights groups say discrimination is widespread.</p>
<p>The new mayor of Istanbul told a group of international journalists on Friday that any group should be free to demonstrate as long as protests do not disturb the peace.</p>
<p>Ekrem Imamoglu said he would discuss the reasons for the ban with relevant authorities.</p>
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