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Twitter flags tweets by Turkish official claiming LGBTQ people are “deviants”
Jerusalem Post, access to Soylu’s tweet was banned in France.Soylu’s tweet appears to be motivated by demonstrations led by university students protesting Ankara’s installment of Melih Bulu, a former political candidate with ties to the populist right-wing Islamist AK Party, as the rector of Bogazici University. In response, four protesters hung artwork near the rector’s office that depicted the Kaaba in Mecca, one of Islam’s holiest sites, alongside images of the LGBTQ rainbow flag. The four protesters were arrested on Saturday, but 159 other protesters were detained on Monday, continuing a pattern of the ruling AK Party stifling any form of dissent.