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Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu cited by Twitter for 'hateful' LGBT comments

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Twitter has hidden a post by Turkey's Interior Minister over "hateful" comments referring to the LGBT community.Süleyman Soylu had referred to students demonstrating against the appointment of a university rector as "LGBT deviants".Students and academics at Istanbul's prestigious Boğaziçi University have been protesting against the new rector, Melih Bulu, for weeks.Appointed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Bulu formerly ran as a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party and maintains close ties.Students have argued that the decree to appoint someone political from outside of the university is an attempt to seize power over the institution and curtail academic freedoms.Protestors have been calling for Bulu's resignation.

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