Turkey's President Erdoğan, who has held the position since 2014, was handed five more years on May 29. He thanked voters for putting their trust in him. He went on to speak out once more against the LGBTQ+ community, he said “In our culture, family is sacred, no one can interfere. We will strangle anyone who dares to touch it.” At a rally in Izmir earlier this year, he said in Turkey LGBTQ+ will not emerge. At another electoral rally, he affirmed that his party will “never be pro-LGBT, because the family is sacred to us”, a statement like the one he made after being re-elected. Throughout his whole campaign, Erdoğan put a heavy emphasis on striking down the LGBTQ+ community, seeking support from his Islamist base to win the election. Many of his speeches accused the opposition of undermining family values and being infiltrated by powerful LGBTQ+ networks, sometimes even hinting that they were being run by paymasters abroad, framing the queerness as “cultural terrorism” of the West. Anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment has been on the rise in Turkey for a number of years, where Pride parades have been banned and queer people have reported feeling afraid for the future.
Turkey’s Anti LGBTQ+ Erdoğan Takes Aim At LGBT Forces In Election Victory Speech
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