Under Sharia, homosexuality is punishable by death. Although Turkey is a secular republic, under its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country is being rapidly Islamized. Turkey’s crackdown on LGBTQ reflects it.
Loudmouthed leftist activists would be protesting in large numbers in the West, but on this, they are nowhere to be found. They save it for pro-Palestine causes, ignoring the fact that they are equally despised among Palestinians in the Middle East.
Erdogan’s Turkey has detained at least 47 people in raids targeting LGBTQ organizations, private homes, bars and even a bathhouse.
Meanwhile, Israel, the country LGBTQ activists love to demonize, is the only place in the region where they can live openly and hold Pride…
— Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) September 14, 2026
Remember when Turkey blocked that LGBTQ+ cruise from porting?
Now, the government is cracking down on the Turkish LGBTQ+ community, blocking websites and accounts, and arresting over 160 people across the country.
Police targeted businesses, private homes and clubs in… pic.twitter.com/wrEoSAOqBm
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 14, 2026
“Turkey: 162 arrested in LGBTQ+ raids,” by Jon Shelton, DW, September 13, 2026:
Turkish police have arrested at least 162 people and searched the offices of six LGBTQ+ associations in weekend raids designed to support the country’s campaign to protect family values.
The Ankara-based LGBTQ+ rights group Kaos GL claimed that beyond arrests, the government had also cut access to dozens of websites and social media accounts belonging to associate groups and rights advocates.
Government says its fulfilling duty to ‘protect families and children’
Turkish Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said investigations — prompted by accusations of prostitution and obscenity — were coordinated by prosecutors in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Aydin and Mersin and involved judicial proceedings against 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses across 15 provinces.“As per the duty to protect families and children given to the state by the constitution, no criminal organization, abuse network or illegal activity which targets children, youths or families will be tolerated!” Gurlek added in a social media post.
Authorities say they seized drugs, digital equipment, smuggled alcohol and a gun in weekend police operations targeting gay bars and night clubs as well as a hammam that was said to be a place of prostitution.
The Istanbul prosecutor’s office added that it had found evidence indicating that children and minors were being inappropriately swayed on issues tied to sexual orientation and gender identity….
Maria V says
The sooner we get rid of the Homosexual movement ‘everywhere’ in the World, the better off we all will be, including in Israel.
Kepha says
I guess Recep Erdogan is proving that even a broken clock is right twice every 24 hours.
I lived two years in Bangkok, and the sex tourism of the supposedly enlightened and liberated West (and the Sinosphere, for that matter) is one of the things that makes me deeply ashamed of my civilization.
John Pepple says
I used to support them, but if they cannot figure out who their worst enemies are, their movement is going to die, whether they like it or not.
Rufolino says
Once again we hear the oft-repeated trope that gay people are “a threat to families” & family life.
This is a complete fantasy. It is nourished by irrational paranoia about a group who are just the same as anyone else, apart from a particular detail.
Gay people are no more a threat to families than any other group and in reality, probably less !
What gay people mostly want is to be left alone, and not be constantly subjected to foolish paranoid prejudice & finger-pointing.