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US 'strongly condemns' Turkey rhetoric against sexual minorities: official

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The United States condemns "rhetoric" against sexual minorities in Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasted the LGBT movement and compared student protesters to "terrorists." "We are concerned by detentions of students and other demonstrators and strongly condemn the anti LGBTQIA rhetoric surrounding the demonstrations," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE

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