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		</div><p>Istanbul’s LGBTQ Pride organisers have said more than 360 people were detained by police on Sunday following a ban on all Pride events.</p>
<p>Kaos GL, a leading LGBTQ rights association, said all those who were detained are being freed on Monday after giving their police statement and undergoing health checks. Some were released overnight.</p>
<p>District governors in the two popular Istanbul districts of Beyoglu and Kadikoy outlawed all LGBTQ events last week, saying the ban would ensure safety, peace and prevent crime.</p>
<p>Numerous streets and subway stations were closed off by police on Sunday to stop protesters from gathering. Police also pushed and detained journalists.</p>
<figure id="attachment_174469" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-174469" style="width: 783px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/F7873E2B-49B1-45A4-A696-59F29588BD24.jpeg" alt="" width="783" height="525" class="size-full wp-image-174469" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-174469" class="wp-caption-text">People shout slogans next to Turkish police officers during the LGBTQ Pride March in Istanbul, Turkey</figcaption></figure>
<p>Amnesty Turkey said the ban was “extremely harsh” and “arbitrary”.</p>
<p>The rights group’s Turkey campaigner, Milena Buyum, tweeted that the detained individuals were “deprived of their liberty simple bc they were exercising their rights” to freedom of expression and assembly.</p>
<p>Turkish authorities allowed Pride marches to take place for more than a decade starting in 2003, when Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan served as prime minister.</p>
<p>Up to 100,000 people attended Istanbul Pride in 2014.</p>
<p>But in 2015, police dispersed crowds using tear gas and water cannon after a last-minute ban.</p>
<p>The march has been banned ever since and top Turkish officials have called LGBTQ people “perverts” who aim to hurt traditional family values.</p>
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