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		</div><p>Twitter has limited access to a tweet by Turkey’s interior minister who referred to student protesters as “LGBT perverts”.</p>
<p>For weeks, students and staff at Istanbul’s prestigious Bogazici University have been protesting against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of Melih Bulu, a figure who has links to his ruling party, as the university’s rector.</p>
<p>They have been calling for Mr Bulu’s resignation and for the university to be allowed to elect its own president.</p>
<p>Late on Monday, police clashed with demonstrators who staged protests demanding the release of a group of students who were arrested over the weekend on charges of inciting hatred and insulting religious values for a poster displayed at Bogazici University, that depicted Islam’s most sacred site with LGBT flags.</p>
<p>Authorities said 159 people were detained in the clashes, although several were later released.</p>
<p>Turkey’s interior minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted on Sunday that “LGBT perverts” had been detained for “disrespecting the Great Kaaba”.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, he repeated the slur, saying on Twitter that the Turkish government would not tolerate “LGBT perverts who attempted to occupy the rector’s office”.</p>
<p>That prompted Twitter to place Mr Soylu’s tweet behind a notice warning that his message violated the social media platform’s rules about “hateful conduct”.</p>
<p>Twitter said, however, it had decided to allow people to click to view Mr Soylu’s tweet on grounds that it was in the public’s interest to have access to a tweet by the elected politician.</p>
<p>Mr Erdogan himself levelled criticism at the protesters during a speech on Monday, by praising the youth wing of his conservative and Islam-oriented party for not being like the “LGBT youth”.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, police in Istanbul used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a new demonstration to denounce Mr Bulu’s appointment, Halk TV television reported. The station’s reporter was slightly hurt in the melee.</p>
<p>Police in the capital, Ankara, also dispersed a demonstration by students who gathered near the city’s main square in a show of solidarity with the Bogazici students. At least 69 demonstrators were detained, Halk TV television reported.</p>
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