Students in Turkey are bravely standing up for LGBT rights

A group of protesters make a human chain as they wait outside the courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo: Osman Sadi Temizel / Getty Images)

Tensions had been running high for weeks at Bogazici University, Turkey’s top-ranked institution of higher learning, but it was a student-organized art exhibit that brought about a police crackdown on the university’s campus.

The art exhibit, one of many…