Turkey, Istanbul. 2021. At least 42 students were detained outside Istanbul's main court on March 26th, as they gathered to support Bogazici University students, who were themselves arrested for displaying a rainbow flag at another protest the day before in university campus.

On January, Erdogan compared some of the students to "terrorists" and said the LGBT cause was incompatible with the country's values.

The student protests have been going on since January 2021, when President Erdoğan appointed the controversial Melih Bulu as the head of a top university in Istanbul. Students see Bulu's appointment as part of Erdogan's effort to centralize control over universities.