31/01/2025 | Writer: Kaos GL

Mustafa Destici, Chairman of the Great Unity Party, said, ‘We wish that deviant thoughts such as LGBT should not only be condemned but also banned by law.’

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Mustafa Destici, Chairman of the ultra-nationalist Great Unity Party, spoke at the 32nd founding anniversary meeting of his party held at Grand Mercure Hotel in Ankara yesterday (29 January). Destici targeted LGBTI+'s in his speech.

Defending the banning of LGBTI+ associations, Destici targeted LGBTI+s with the following statements:

"We must secure the family, family values, knowing that it is an indispensable condition of being a nation. For this reason, we especially wish that deviant thoughts such as LGBT should not only be condemned but also banned by law and not be allowed."

Destici had previously targeted LGBTI+'s by calling them “perverted”

Destici, who supported the People's Alliance candidate AKP President and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the last elections, had previously targeted LGBTI+'s with hate speech. Speaking on 15 December 2024 at the ‘Alperen Meetings from Yesevi to Tacettin’' programme organised by the Alperen Ocakları Education, Culture and Solidarity Foundation, Destici claimed that “the Turkish family structure is under attack” and described “extramarital life as a threat to national security”.

Destici also used the term ‘deviant’ about LGBTI+'s:

"For the security of the state, the health of the society and the continuation of the generation, it is essential for men and women to live in a marriage union. Based on all these facts, we are launching the ‘Married Life Project’ today. We refuse to live outside marriage. We declare all kinds of mechanisms, projects and plans that encourage extra-marital life as enemies. We advocate married life for life and support young marriage. We reject sexlessness and even perverted lifestyles such as LGBT. We will never forget that the institution of marriage is the foundation of Turkish culture."


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