Turkey's leader claims Eurovision Song Contest encourages 'gender neutralization,' threatens family values
Turkey’s president took a swipe at the Eurovision Song Contest on Monday, accusing the annual event of allegedly encouraging "gender neutralization" and threatening the traditional family.In a speech following a Cabinet meeting, Recep Tayyip Erdogan described participants at the contest as the "Trojan horses of social corruption" and said his government was right to keep Turkey out of the pan-European pop competition since 2012.TURKEY'S ERDOGAN DEFENDS HAMAS, CLAIMS OVER 1K MEMBERS ARE AT HIS COUNTRY'S HOSPITALSIt was an apparent reference to Swiss singer Nemo who won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest earlier this month with "The Code," an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing a nongender identity. The 24-year-old singer became the first nonbinary winner of the contest that has long been embraced as a safe haven by the LGBTQ community."At such events, it has become impossible to meet a normal person," claimed Erdogan, whose ruling Justice and Development Party finds its roots in Turkey’s Islamic movement and whose government has grown less tolerant of LGBTQ rights in recent years."We understand better how we made the right decision by keeping Turkey out of this disgraceful competition for the past 12 years," he said.Erdogan on Monday also decried a serious decline in birth rates in Turkey as an "existential threat" and a "disaster" for the country.Last week, Turkey’s State Statistical Institute announced that the country’s birth rate in 2023 had dropped to 1.51 children per woman.The Turkish leader has long called on families to have at least three children.
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