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Turkish riot police deployed crowd-control munitions to disperse demonstrators in a banned Pride march in Istanbul, amid a crackdown on LGBTQ activism in the socially conservative nation. 20 people, including a photojournalist, arrested, Homosexuality is legal in Turkey, but the country’s conservative ruling party, has grown increasingly hostile towards LGBTQ rights.