Violence against LGBT people

The third Belgrade Pride Parade, which took place under the slogan "Love changes the world", was held on Sunday with several hundred LGBT rights supporters, alongside Serbian politicians, participating in the march through the centre of the Serbian capital.

The group was protected by some 5,000 police officers who had the city centre in lockdown to ensure participants' safety.

German security and intelligence forces are conducting nationwide operations to detect terrorist cells, following the revelations that a jihadist group from Dusseldorf was planning large scale attacks across Germany. According to new information, German authorities suspect over 180 people are linked to the Islamic State (IS) and other jihadist groups.

The suicide bomber who killed two police officers and wounded 22, including civilians, on May 1 in the southeastern province of Gaziantep has been identified as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant ?.G., daily Habertürk has reported. 

Interior Minister Efkan Ala said on May 2 that 50 ISIL members suspects were detained for connections to the attack.

Iraqi police on April 19 unearthed two mass graves in the western city of Ramadi, with bodies of about 40 people killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants during the militant Sunni group's reign of terror in the city, officials said.

The Iraqi army said March 24 that its troops and allied militia had launched what is expected to be a long and difficult offensive to retake the second city of Mosul, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) main hub in Iraq.

A Japanese man, who was bound to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, was captured on late March 22 in the Nizip district of the southeastern province of Gaziantep.

Gendarmerie teams captured the man identified as M.M. while searching a suspicious car.

Balkan leaders have condemned Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Brussels, raising security levels throughout the region as precautionary measure against possible ISIS-inspired actions.

A few hours after the deadly attacks in the heart of Europe, Islamic State reportedly has claimed responsibility for the explosions in Brussels.

According to Italian news agency Agi and Corriere della Sera, IS fighters claim that their organization is behind the terrorist attacks without, though, giving further details.

The LGBT community in Sarajevo has called on the Bosnian authorities to punish the perpetrators of an attack last Friday on the Kino Kriterion, one of the few LGBT-friendly clubs in the capital.

"Authorities need to prosecute this homophobic attack as a proper hate crime," Emina Bosnjak, from the Sarajevo Open Center, which promotes LGBT rights in Bosnia, told BIRN on Monday.

If the question was asked three weeks ago, the answer you might get from foreign observers of the investment environment in Turkey would be related to the possibility of a unilateral Turkish military operation into Syria.