Turkey’s chief claims Eurovision Track Contest encourages ‘gender neutralization,’ threatens household values

Turkey’s president took a swipe on the Eurovision Track Contest on Monday, accusing the annual occasion of allegedly encouraging “gender neutralization” and threatening the standard household.

In a speech following a Cupboard assembly, Recep Tayyip Erdogan described contributors on the contest because the “Trojan horses of social corruption” and mentioned his authorities was proper to maintain Turkey out of the pan-European pop competitors since 2012.

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It was an obvious reference to Swiss singer Nemo who gained the 68th Eurovision Track Contest earlier this month with “The Code,” an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer’s journey towards embracing a nongender id. The 24-year-old singer turned the primary nonbinary winner of the competition that has lengthy been embraced as a protected haven by the LGBTQ neighborhood.

“At such occasions, it has turn into inconceivable to fulfill a traditional particular person,” claimed Erdogan, whose ruling Justice and Growth Occasion finds its roots in Turkey’s Islamic motion and whose authorities has grown much less tolerant of LGBTQ rights lately.

“We perceive higher how we made the fitting determination by conserving Turkey out of this disgraceful competitors for the previous 12 years,” he mentioned.

Erdogan on Monday additionally decried a critical decline in start charges in Turkey as an “existential menace” and a “catastrophe” for the nation.

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Final week, Turkey’s State Statistical Institute introduced that the nation’s start fee in 2023 had dropped to 1.51 youngsters per lady.

The Turkish chief has lengthy referred to as on households to have not less than three youngsters.