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Istanbul (AFP) – Hundreds of people attended an anti-LGBTQ rally Sunday in Istanbul, answering a call from dozens of conservative associations, an AFP photographer reported.
Bearing banners with slogans such as “protect your family and your generation”, participants urged a ban on associations upholding the rights of gay and transgender people, whose own rallies have been banned in recent years.
Many of the marchers backing associations close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were veiled women who brandished slogans such as “Say no to society without gender” and “Father + mother + baby = family.”
They converged on the traditionally conservative district of Fatih for a rally which earlier had gained the seal of approval from the Turkish broadcasting council in…
