{"id":119592,"date":"2026-06-30T17:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/119592\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:47:17","slug":"turkey-blocks-instagram-account-of-lgbti-rights-group-pride-social-media-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/119592\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey blocks Instagram account of LGBTI+ rights group, Pride social media pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turkey on Tuesday blocked access<\/a> to the Instagram account of one of the country\u2019s leading LGBTI+ advocacy groups, along with several Pride-related social media accounts, citing national security and public order, Turkish media reported.<\/p>\n

Following the decision, access to Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Foundation\u2019s (Kaos GL) Instagram account was blocked<\/a> in Turkey. The blocked Pride-related accounts included those for \u0130stanbul Pride Week, \u0130stanbul Trans Pride Week, Ankara Pride and \u0130zmir Pride.<\/p>\n

The latest decision adds to a series of access restrictions targeting Kaos GL. The group\u2019s news website, which has covered LGBTI+ issues since 2007, was blocked<\/a> in June 2025 under a ruling by the \u0130stanbul 12th Criminal Magistrate of Peace, while its X<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> accounts had also been restricted in 2025 on similar grounds.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1994, Kaos GL one of the oldest and largest LGBTQ+ organizations in Turkey.<\/p>\n

The restrictions followed a broader sweep in which access to 57 X accounts belonging to women\u2019s and LGBTI+ rights organizations and activists was blocked<\/a> on June 19 on national security and public order concerns, days before the start of \u0130stanbul Pride Week.<\/p>\n

Y\u0131ld\u0131z Tar, the editor-in-chief of KaosGL.org, was detained<\/a> on June 23 with 208 others, including lawyers, academics, journalists and members of left-wing political and civil society organizations, during a series of operations ahead of the NATO summit on July 7\u20138. Authorities said the detentions were part of terrorism-related investigations targeting civil society figures.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has increasingly portrayed LGBTI+ visibility as a threat to public morality and family values, while authorities have for years restricted Pride marches and publicly targeted LGBTI+ advocacy.<\/p>\n

Turkey was ranked 47th out of 49 countries in the 2025 Rainbow Index<\/a>, an annual assessment of LGBTI+ rights published by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA)-Europe, which placed it among the bottom five in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkey on Tuesday blocked access to the Instagram account of one of the country\u2019s leading LGBTI+ advocacy groups,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[59323,312,59324,59325,59326,59327,59328,59329,131,132,155],"class_list":["post-119592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-ankara-pride","tag-human-rights","tag-instagram-ban","tag-istanbul-pride-week","tag-istanbul-trans-pride-week","tag-izmir-pride","tag-kaos-gl","tag-lgbti-rights","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116840316842141061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}