Kürşat Mican

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has initiated an investigation into an art exhibition at the ArtIstanbul Feshane culture and arts center following a complaint lodged by the Yesevi Alperenler Association.

The complaint accuses the exhibition of "openly inciting or insulting the public to hatred and enmity."

A group gathered and demonstrated in front of the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district late on July 20 to protest the Israeli government's recent move to place metal detectors at the entrance to al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. 

If it had remained as a peaceful protest, you may have said it was the wrong address but was still legal.

A Turkish ultra-nationalist group has attacked a synagogue in Istanbul's Beyoğlu district with stones during a protest against the new Israeli restrictions on Palestinians' entry to the al-Aqsa mosque.

The Alperen Hearths, an ultranationalist youth organization linked to right-wing nationalist Great Union Party (BBP), has threatened the LGBT Pride March set to take place on June 25 in Istanbul's Taksim Square, vowing to prevent the march from taking place.