Submitting a Parliamentary question to Vice President Fuat Oktay, CHP MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu has asked on what grounds the Governorship of İstanbul has not permitted the Pride Parade, raising concerns over discrimination against the LGBTI+s.

The 27th İstanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week has started. A series of workshops, discussion panels, parties and film screenings will be held for a week as part of Pride Week events.

The prison sentence of an academic for sexually harassing his colleague has been reduced by the court.

University student Özge Doğan has been living with an electronic bracelet attached to her right foot since May 15. Speaking to bianet, she says, “Though not everyone has visible bracelets on their feet, invisible handcuffs dominate our lives.”

While the ban has been suspended, the final verdict on the "Bondage Workshop" and "Sex Toys Workshop" will be made tomorrow.

When the LGBTİ+ said they want to hold events in another place than Taksim, they were told by the Deputy Governor that they are a cause of "social concern" regarding all open-air events.

An examination has been conducted at the scene of incident where university student Şule Çet suspiciously died after falling off the 20th floor of a high-rise building in Ankara in 2018. The arrested defendants have not been brought to the examination.

LGBTI+ organizations have denounced the ban on 7th İzmir LGBTI+ Pride Week: “Streets belong to us, just as our labor, identity and body. Get used to it, we won't go anywhere.”

The 7th İzmir LGBTI+ Pride Week and the 3rd Antalya Pride Week have been banned by the Governorships of İzmir and Antalya "with the aim of ensuring public safety, maintaining national security and public order and protecting general health and morals."

The governor has not allowed the Pride Parade in İstanbul to take place since 2015.

Feminist journalist and writer Ayşe Düzkan, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Özgür Gündem Editors-in-Chief on Watch case and arrested on January 29, has been released from Eskişehir Prison.

Men have killed at least 27 women and three children who were with the women in May. Men have also raped at least three women, forced 64 women to sex work, harassed 28 women and sexually abused at least 39 children.