… complaining in 2013 that his car had been towed from his lawn by authorities in Istanbul. He was startled to find that WikiLeaks had published the message along with his …

Turkish activists are taking to the streets of Istanbul today to protest the rape and murder of a young transgender woman.
Hande Kader, a 23-year-old sex worker, was …

… religious minorities who get killed by extremists on a regular basis,” and for those in Istanbul in particular, following the terrorist attack at Atuturk Airport that killed 43.
Queer Muslim …

ISTANBUL (AP) — Police in Istanbul used tear gas and detained activists who gathered Sunday to issue a statement to mark gay pride week after authorities banned their rally in the …

… Court passed marriage equality in the U.S.
Adam Shafi purchased tickets from SFO to Istanbul after considering joining ISIS last year, an organization he ultimately felt was too brutal …

… Rights on Tuesday follows a violent police crackdown last month on a gay parade in Istanbul and the reported rape and assault of a human rights defender. Posters have also …

… a rubber bullet rifle, center, run to disperse participants of an LGBT Pride event in Istanbul, Sunday, June 28, 2015.
ISTANBUL — Turkish police used water cannons and tear gas against …

… the one in Tel Aviv is in the mainly-Muslim Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul, where up to 70,000 people are estimated to have participated in the past …

APLaura Nicholls of Spain, left, and Brittney Griner of the United States fight for the ball during their Basketball Championship for Women’s final at Fenerbahce Arena in Istanbul, Turkey …

… years ago, were stoked during the ceremony itself. A passenger aboard a flight bound for Istanbul said there was a bomb on board and tried to divert the plane to …

… congress. On Saturday, the IOC awarded the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo, over rival bids from Istanbul and Madrid. The next day, wrestling won reinstatement to the program for the 2020 …

… about the Sept. 7 vote on the host city of the 2020 Olympics, where Tokyo, Istanbul and Madrid are the finalists.
“They’re very close to each other,” he said …

… taken seriously.
Kılıçkaya also pointed parallels between the popular anti government Gezi Park protests in Istanbul and trans struggle, saying that in both cases the “resistance to violence is no …

… A group of leading conservative Turkish charities slammed media organizations for covering this year’s Istanbul gay pride.
According to leading Turkish charities, such images of Istanbul pride are pornographic …

… her story.
“War veterans from the U.S., someone from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, from Istanbul, South America, Portugal, really just from all over the world,” said Chao, sifting through …

… the faces of all the young people I’ve met in Budapest or Ankara and in Istanbul and in El Salvador who hear the president supporting them and they …

… LGBT children.
“My Child” is being produced with the group LISTAG (Families of LGBT in Istanbul), a solidarity and support group for friends, families and especially parents of LGBT individuals …

… the Iranian capital city of Tehran) early Sunday morning, Sept. 4th.
Independent knowledgeable sources in Istanbul, Turkey also verified that the claims made by the Iranian state run television agency …

Tom MacMaster (aka Gay Girl in Damascus)
A married man vacationing in Istanbul, Turkey, is behind an elaborate internet hoax in which he posed online as an oppressed Syrian-American …