*He was detained for participating in an "eventful" Pride march.
*On the bus, Chechens said he "looked like a gay".
According to him.
EDIT: I did not claim that Turkish people are not homophobic. I did not minimize the injustice suffered by the Portuguese man. Why are you downvoting this?
Turkey doesn't lock people up for being gay. Homosexuality was never criminalised. Public displays of affection are another issue but just being gay, no.
Just because someone is gay or got called gay doesn't mean that they've been arrested for being gay. Laws surrounding demonstrations are illiberal enough on their own to result in getting locked up.
It stated that he was arrested just for "looking" gay. I had to read way too far into the article to clarify that the police suspicions were actually correct.