Turkey opened its border to fleering Syrians in 2014. This photo of Turkish soldiers at the border was taken in September 2014. Some gay guys have reportedly fled Syria into Turkey and then elsewhere.
Turkey opened its border to fleeing Syrians in 2014. This photo of Turkish soldiers at the border was taken in September 2014. Syrian gays have reportedly fled into Turkey and elsewhere. fpolat69 / Shutterstock.com

In horrifying news:

The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for executing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an international gay rights organization said Monday at the first-ever U.N. Security Council meeting spotlighting violence and discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.

The Islamic State "controls about a third of Syria and Iraq."

A gay refugee from Syria who managed to escape to Lebanon and then Turkey and then the US says:

"At the executions, hundreds of townspeople, including children, cheered jubilantly as at a wedding," Nahas said. "If a victim did not die after being hurled off a building, the townspeople stoned him to death. This was to be my fate too."

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