The station’s reporter was slightly hurt in the melee. Meanwhile, police in Istanbul used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a new demonstration to denounce Bulu’s appointment, Halk TV television reported. That prompted Twitter to place Soylu’s tweet behind a notice warning that his message violated the social media platform’s rules about “hateful conduct.” Twitter said, however, it had decided to allow people to click to view Soylu’s tweet on grounds that it was in the public’s interest to have access to a tweet by the elected politician.Įrdogan himself leveled criticism at the protesters during a speech on Monday, by praising the youth wing of his conservative and Islam-oriented party for not being like the “LGBT youth.” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted on Sunday that “LGBT perverts” had been detained for “disrespecting the Great Kaaba.” On Tuesday, he repeated the slur, saying on Twitter that the Turkish government would not tolerate “LGBT perverts who attempted to occupy the rector’s office.”