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Four scholars were arrested on Saturday (30 January) and described as “diverted” through the Turkish Interior Minister due to paintings allegedly depicting rainbows along the Kaaba.
The Kaaba is the most sacred in Islam, being a building in the middle of the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Tensions have simmered at the University of Boazicai in Instanbul after a suspected loyalist to Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party appointed a senior official through President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The student crackdown erupted this month when protesters, many with LGBT Pride flags, argued that Professor Melih Bulu’s presidential nomination as rector in the run-up to his 158-year history of choosing his own.
According to Ahval, another hot spot in the multi-week protest broke out when four scholars allegedly posed art paintings depicting the Kaaba along with rainbow symbols commonly related to LGBT pride.
The Istanbul Attorney General’s Office accused academics of “leaving a photo of the Kaaba on the floor of an exhibition at the University of Boazicai”.
LGBT Pride flags were “confiscated” in a police search of students’ rooms, Istanbul governor’s workplace said in a statement, calling the operation an “ugly attack” that “made devout beliefs laugh. “
The gunpowder barrel provoked fierce condemnation from senior Turkish officials. After all, rainbows and so-called LGBT symbols have been reduced through policy makers to a volatile cultural war.
Indeed, Turkey’s interior minister, who leads the country’s internal affairs, such as public safety and electoral conduct, ridiculed the protesters.
“Four LGBT deviants who respected the Islamic holy site, the Kaaba, were arrested at the University of Boazicai,” soylu tweeted Friday night (January 29).
– Soylu | Mask???? Mesafe↔️ Temizlik ???? (@suleymansoylu) January 29, 2021
But the university’s LGBT society, Boazi-i LGBT, issued a statement of solidarity with the students arrested: “We help our detained friends who oppose those who attack LGBT people,” he said.
LGBT Boazi-i (@bogaziciLGBTI) January 29, 2021
“We don’t settle for principals who target their own students!”
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In Turkey, the vision of tear gas, water cannons and plastic insurrection shields suffocating occasions of pride in Istanbul has an unfortunate annual tradition.
The country’s president, Erdogan, as well as lawmakers, leaders, heads of primary humanitarian agencies and even clothing retailers, have launched violent attacks on the country’s troubled LGBT community.
Retail giant LC Waikiki previously announced this year that it would ban the use of rainbows, unicorns and “LGBT images” in its clothing creations.
Meanwhile, government advertising regulators have introduced their own terrifying crackdown, saying rainbows “harm children’s intellectual health. “
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