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I resisted but gave in. IT'S SO FUN!!!

First time in my life that I hear this name. Flush!

While it's just a drip of water on a hot stone, I still think it's remarkable that a Roman Catholic Pope made this statement. I applaud him. Could you imagine his predecessors saying something like that ..?

It's all such an embarassing and unnecessary mess! Britain is like the guy who files for divorce but doesnt have his own place yet so he stays in the joint apartment and wants to take his time to find a new place.

It's different in canada then. Here it's the top story and everybody is talking about it. Probably because it's geographically close & there is a big Turkish population living here.

Of course people care. It's all over the news with live updates. Horrible and saddening- what is the world coming to

Shocking and saddening news. I didn't think it would actually come to this. Equally shocking to read how unbelievebly ignorant and uneducated people on here are. I haven't read the entire thread but I'm truly shocked that people seemingly get their info from tabloids or blogs and have no clue about the EU at all. Issues like EU legislation, the eurozone, the single market etc. are discussed with such confidence & smugness only making it painfully obvious how clueless and uninformed people are. Thanks to Kim, rebelvv and a few others for speaking some sense. I'm out of here or I'll post something I'll regret

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/istanbul-lgbt-rally_us_57670041e4b015db1bc9b401?section= Istanbul Police Violently Disperse Banned LGBT Rally Police fired tear gas and rubber pellets on a march for transgender people. 06/19/2016 04:44 pm ET OZAN KOSE via Getty Images A woman reacts after tear gas was fired at the LGBT rally in Istanbul. ISTANBUL, June 19 (Reuters) - Istanbul riot police fired tear gas and rubber pellets on Sunday to disperse a march for transgender people banned after ultra-nationalists said that “degenerates” could not demonstrate. Hundreds of riot police cordoned off the city’s main Taksim Square to prevent the “Trans Pride” rally taking place during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Authorities have banned transgender and gay pride marches this month, citing security concerns after the ultra-nationalist warnings against any such events on Turkish soil. “Football fans can rally in this country whenever they want. We were going to do a peaceful activity,” said Ebru Kiranci, spokesperson of the Istanbul LGBTI Solidarity Association. OZAN KOSE via Getty Images A woman holding rainbow flag look on as Turkish anti-riot police officers fire rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators. “(The) holy month of Ramadan is an excuse. If you are going to respect Ramadan, respect us too. The heterosexuals think it’s too much for us, only 2 hours in 365 days,” she said. The annual gay pride parade, described as the biggest in the Muslim world, was due to take place on June 26. Istanbul has held gay pride parades since 2003, attracting tens of thousands of marchers, but last year’s was broken up by police. OZAN KOSE/Getty Images A Turkish anti-riot police officer steps on a rainbow flag during a rally staged by the LGBT community. Although the Turkish republic is constitutionally secular, the vast majority of the population is Muslim. Tayyip Erdogan, who became president in 2014 after 11 years as prime minister, has steadily boosted the power of the head of state’s office with appeals to conservative nationalist and religious-minded Turks. OZAN KOSE via Getty Images Several hundred police surrounded the main Taksim Square — where all demonstrations have been banned since 2013 — to prevent the ‘Trans Pride’ event taking place. This has effectively shifted Turkey from a parliamentary to a presidential system even before Erdogan seeks to amend the constitution through a referendum to make that official. Unlike many other Muslim countries, homosexuality is not a crime in Turkey but hostility toward gays remains widespread. Critics say Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party have shown little interest in expanding rights for minorities, gays and women, and are intolerant of dissent. OZAN KOSE/Getty Images Demonstrators run as police forcibly disperse the rally. The assault by the riot police targeted protesters angered by an attack on a record store launching the new Radiohead album on Saturday. A group of men armed with sticks and bottles attacked the store late on Friday, apparently in protest at people drinking beer during Ramadan, video footage on social media showed.

Disgusting and sickening.

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Thank you all for your kind words and wishes. They are much appreciated I hope all other Brussels based MNation members & their loved ones are safe

Thanks chelle It was/is so surreal. I'm just glad he's safe. He lives in the EU quarter,too .Told him to stay home tomorrow as well - he said they left it up to them whether or not they go to the office or work from home.

My GOD what a day My bf works at the commission and was just about to enter the metro station when the attacks happened. If he would've left 5-10 mins before ... I cannot even imagine. He called me in tears saying that there is smoke everywhere, people are in panic and lots of blood. I told him to go back home immediately and to stay there which he did Surreal and insane

My bf just called me crying ... another explosion in Maalbek .. he says all full of insured people and blood I just vomited

FOR FUCKS SAKE my bf is Brussels based and just landed there at 7 am so lucky