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   [1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/09/lgbtq-cruise-ship-refused-entry-egypt-turkey
   https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#13_May_2020_(Cancelling_defeats)
   https://stallman.org/archives/2007-may-aug.html#05%20May%202007%20(Protests%20in%20Turkey)

   Two Muslim governments (Turkey and Egypt) have seized on a self-designated "gay cruise" as an opportunity to demonstrate their religious bigotry, by refusing the ship entry. Turkey is ostensibly a secular democracy, but

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     [2/2] nowadays the tyrant Erdoğan is undermining both of those allegiances.