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Portuguese tourist assaulted by Turkish police, jailed for 20 days for "looking gay"
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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How is "Looking gay" defined according to Turkish law? Just being handsome as hell?
I would be surprised if this wasn't caused by a "very straight" policeman trying to compensate for his own sexual confusion.
As far as I know, homosexuality isn't even illegal in Turkiye. Seems like police just making up rules as usual.
Yeah, I think he was quite unlucky, he was not even aware of the attempt to a pride parade and made the fatal mistake of asking for directions to the area where the pride would happen and there you go, 9 days unable to make a phone call in overcrowded prisons and more 11 days in prison after the first phone call. Welcome to Türkye...