Istanbul Pride (Onur Haftası)

Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week takes place every year during the last week of June and it consists of workshops, panel discussions, parties and a series of similar activities.

Istanbul LGBTI+ Pride Week was first held as “Christopher Street Day” in 1993 and is celebrated every year since then. It ends with a street march every year since 2003 and it has been an international event since 2007. The 2011 gathering in Istiklal Street, attracted over 10,000 people, therefore making LGBTI+ Pride Istanbul the biggest march of its kind in Eastern Europe. The 2012 pride march, which took place on 1 July, attracted more than 15.000 people. 

LGBTI+ Pride is celebrated around the world in the spring and summertime as a symbol of the acts of resistance after the police raid to the Stonewall Inn in New York on June 28th, 1969.