{"id":2000,"date":"2015-07-05T10:57:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2015-07-05T10:57:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:57:18","slug":"turkish-police-attack-pride-with-rubber-bullets-water-cannons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2000","title":{"rendered":"Turkish police attack Pride with rubber bullets, water cannons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With such good news on the same-sex marriage front in the United States in the last week, it can be easy to lose sight of the struggles LGBT people are facing throughout the world. A Pride celebration in Turkey turned violent last weekend when the police attacked the celebrators with water cannons, rubber, bullets, and tear gas. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/world\/article\/Turkish-police-use-water-cannons-to-clear-gay-6354236.php\">Associated Press:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkish police used water cannons and tear gas against gay pride marchers trying to rally in Istanbul&#8217;s central square on Sunday, forcing the thousands of demonstrators to gather several blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured, according to the Dogan news agency. The extent of their injuries wasn&#8217;t immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>Between 100 and 200 protesters were chased away from Taksim Square as they began gathering in the late afternoon. Police hemmed the demonstrators into a small corner of the square and then fired several jets of water to force them down a side street.<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes, the noisy but otherwise peaceful rally restarted a few blocks away and grew to several thousand people as the day wore on. An Associated Press reporter at the scene occasionally smelled tear gas, but there didn&#8217;t appear any further attempt by police to interfere with the protest. The protest broke up around nightfall as many headed to local bars to celebrate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/world\/article\/Turkish-police-use-water-cannons-to-clear-gay-6354236.php\">Click here to view images from the clash with police.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman With such good news on the same-sex marriage front in the United States in the last week, it can be easy to lose sight of the struggles LGBT people are facing throughout the world. A Pride celebration in Turkey turned violent last weekend when the police attacked the celebrators with water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[96,173,94,174,172],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-police","tag-pride","tag-ramadan","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}