Violence against LGBT people

Three suspects allegedly linked to the slain perpetrator of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack on a Christmas market in Berlin last year have been apprehended at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, Turkey's Interior Ministry announced on March 20.

Five people were murdered per day across Turkey in 2016, according to a report from the Police Department and the Gendarmerie Command.

Firearms were used the most in the 1,948 murders committed in the country in 2016, the report said.
Most of the murders were committed due to conflicts over money or honor killings, according to official figures. 

The United States is not about to plunder Iraq's petroleum reserves, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who arrived in Baghdad on Feb. 20, said as he sought to soothe partners rattled by U.S. President Donald Trump.

At least 110 X-ray machines will be placed in sensitive spots in Ankara as part of precautions against deadly terror attacks, private broadcaster daily Habertürk has reported. 

LGBT rights group Zagreb Pride is organising a protest entitled 'Love Is and Remains Stronger than Hate' on Monday at 6pm in the centre of Zagreb, after tear gas was set off at a nightclub in the capital during a LGBT party in the early hours of Sunday - an attack that was strongly condemned by Croatian officials.

Prosecutors investigating a group of suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants have alleged that a school has been founded in Istanbul's Sultanbeyli district to disseminate ISIL's jihadist ideology to school-age children, daily Vatan has reported Feb. 10. 

Police have arrested 11 suspected Islamic State Iraq and Levant (ISIL) members in connection with a deadly attack on an Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of the new year, a police official said Jan. 26.

Abdulkadir Masharipov, who is accused of killing 39 people and wounding 65 more in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of the new year, has been detained in the city's Esenyurt district, sources have confirmed. 

The attacker was caught along with his son at a luxurious apartment. 

A man who kicked an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant during an attack in the famous Istanbul nightclub Reina at New Year's has said he would have killed the attacker if he knew the militant was alone. 

The terrible massacre by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on a nightclub in Ortaköy last week has triggered Turkey's most traditional debate on "secular versus conservative" lifestyles.