Alarm After Arrests in North Cyprus Under Gay Sex Law

Euro MPs have voiced alarm after two men were arrested in Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus under a British-era law criminalising gay sex. On Sunday, two inmates at the central prison in Nicosia appeared in court charged with having “sexual intercourse against the order of nature”. Gay sex is not a crime in either Turkey or the Republic of Cyprus.

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