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[-] avater@lemmy.world 127 points 1 year ago

that erdogan even thinks his country will become part of the eu...

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Frankly I'm surprised they're even in NATO.

[-] DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

They've been in NATO since back when the US would lock you up for being gay too. Hell, Texas only removed the law banning same sex relations in 2003. And it took a supreme Court ruling to do it. Sodomy was still a crime in the US army until 2014.

[-] uydurmanick8849@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 year ago

Psst... Hush... Don't ruin the circlejerk!!!11!11

[-] yata@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

What a bizarre comment. Mentioning that other countries have or still suffers from homophobia takes nothing away from this current story about homophobia in Turkey.

[-] Alto@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

That's what happens when you control a very important location

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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 107 points 1 year ago

He does look pretty happy.

[-] terralem@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

He looks too happy, that makes him suspicious.
Bet he's up to no good! Like having fun with people regardless off gender.
Damn happy people

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

Is that what you want? A country where people can walk around happy in public? Degenerates..

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is what conservatives around the world want.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

They want things much worst than that.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 50 points 1 year ago

Well, there's another country that won't get my tourist dollars and will be talked bad about whenever anyone mentions it for the next 10 years

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Apparently Turkish jurisprudence operates under the same logic as my high school did in the 90s

[-] Pumpkinbot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's a classic Turkish move for undercover police to offer membership into the Pen 15 Club, then arrest them when they accept.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Sounds like another shit hole country I will avoid like the plague.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Any government / country entangled with religious nutjobs is to be avoided.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Including large swaths of the US. Florida is looking pretty sketch lately.

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[-] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

I classify Turkey with Iran. Don't go there. Unfortunately my list for no-go is growing

[-] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be so hasty. The middle east, including Turkey, are some of the most culturally rich places to visit. In general, the Arab people are extremely hospitable. There has been civilization in the area for thousands of years and many fascinating antiquities remain. Turkey in particular has a longstanding secular tradition that was started a hundred years ago by Kemal Ataturk, only recently eroded by the religious conservatives. I wouldn't let a few thuggish people put you off.

[-] Default_Defect@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

I'd agree, but given that those few thuggish people in the Middle East seem to be setting policy that includes beating people for looking gay all the way up to beheadings, it might be beast to avoid it for now.

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[-] 5null5@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago

Every Pride Month this kinda shits happens in here.Sorry for the guy.

[-] bossito@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago
[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Why would anyone straight have a problem with anyone being gay? Are they all in the closet and think that what they feel is what everyone feels, and somehow the fault of gay people?

[-] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

Well, to be “fair,” a significant portion of homophobes believe an invisible man in the sky said it was bad, according to some guys who knew some guys who knew a guy that died several hundred years before they wrote that into their “things the invisible man in the sky said” collection of fan fiction.

[-] megane_kun@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Well, to be “fair,” a significant portion of homophobes believe an invisible man in the sky said it was bad…

If it weren't for that, I would imagine it'd be advantageous for straight guys for there to be a gay guys: there'd be less competition for the women!

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[-] Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

You know, for one reason or another I won't bother you with I'm still in the WhatsApp group of my childhood friends.

They're a bunch of dicks, and tbh were I to meet them today I'd avoid them like the plague, but a couple of people in there are actual friends, so I stick around.

Anyway, the humour in the chat is that of many WhatsApp groups, jokes about women, sex and so on.

Boomers humour, so to speak, even though we're all X-Gen.

Sadly, 80% are jokes about gays, which can get fairly nasty at times.

A couple of weeks ago I actually said "hey, how come you guys always joke about gays and trans? Like, all the time? You know who does that? Closeted homosexuals".

Then I linked a few articles of random gay-bashing Republicans who were caught fiddling kids and were forced to admitting being gay.

"Rings a bell?"

I haven't seen a gay joke in the group since.

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I didn't get it until I started getting serious about weight loss (doing well btw :)) you develop a raw anger at people eating food that you can't enjoy. Of course I don't say anything. It's like that expression

If you are a liberal vegetarian you do not eat meat

If you are a conservative vegetarian no one gets to eat meat except for you.

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[-] DaveNa@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Is that web reliable? Can people go 20 days without sleeping? Simple Google search says record is 11 days. And he worries about detainees? Not gays? And yeah, the web description is "unbiased, well researched, independent news." You know they are bad when they do those kind of claims. Just criticizing the website, not the story. Commenting because that's how I'm doing my part. ><

[-] Acunbaz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are correct. The title is misleading.

*He was detained for participating in an “eventful” Pride march.

*On the bus, some "Chechens" said he “looked like a gay."

According to him.

Berlin-based ArtıGerçek (the original, Turkish-language version of GercekNews) is a sensational-yet-prominent left-liberal Turkish-language newsletter. "GercekNews" is much more fresh and novice, uses an outdated UI of artigercek.com

https://lemmy.world/comment/1550725

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[-] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago

Well, AK Party is cancer. CHP should lead Turkey instead of corrupt Erdogan brains.

[-] m00b0mph@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago

Just dont go to such a shit country.

[-] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Why would you even go to that shithole?

[-] stinkload@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Years ago a friend's rock band was touring Europe and they landed a show at a club in Turkey About a month before the show the owner of the bar sent an email to the booking agent that said "We don't allow fags in our bar, Show canceled" The band had a video with a drag queen in it.

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[-] Acunbaz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The title is misleading.

*He was detained for participating in an "eventful" Pride march.

*On the bus, Chechens said he "looked like a gay".

According to him.

EDIT: I did not claim that Turkish people are not homophobic. I did not minimize the injustice suffered by the Portuguese man. Why are you downvoting this?

[-] nac82@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

He claims he didn't participate.

So do we believe the people who lock people up for being gay or the gay dude thrown in prison for 20 days for looking gay?

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[-] Froody@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Another country that should never have been allowed into the EU. Fucking dipshits went from a secular nation to a religious hellhole.

[-] surli@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Turkey is luckily not in the EU. Recently they tried to use their veto power in NATO to block Sweden's entry unless they're allowed to begin the process of joining the EU but that got shut down real quick.

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