27/01/2025 | Writer: Kaos GL

“We are taking protective measures for our youth against the LGBT perversion, which is spreading like a plague all over the world,” Erdoğan said at his party's youth branches congress.

President Erdoğan compared LGBTI+ people to “plague” Kaos GL - News Portal for LGBTI+

President and AKP Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at the 7th Ordinary Congress of Youth Branches of his party held at Ankara Sports Hall.

At the congress titled “Shape Türkiye'ye with your youth”, Erdoğan compared LGBTI+'s to a “plague”. Speaking about the declaration of the Year of Family, Erdoğan targeted LGBTI+'s as follows:

“We are taking protective measures for our youth against the LGBT perversion that spreads like a plague all over the world.”

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In ‘Address to the Nation’ speech after the cabinet meeting on 6 January, Erdoğan also targeted LGBTI+s and said, ‘The LGBT issue is one of the most serious threats to the existence of the family today.’ In the same speech, it was also announced that 2025 was declared the Family Year

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Speaking at the meeting of the Population Policies Board on 9 January, Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz attributed the decline in the fertility rate to ‘desexualisation’ and said that new legal regulations would be made.

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The first support for the Family Year came from the Presidency of Religious Affairs, and LGBTI+'s were targeted in the Friday sermon on 10 January. In the Friday sermon of the Diyanet, it was stated that ‘desexualisation activities are heresy’, which is also used by the government to target LGBTI+'s.

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The plans for the Family Year were announced on 13 January. At the introductory meeting of the Family Year, both Minister of Family Mahinur Göktaş and President Erdoğan targeted LGBTI+s. Erdoğan said, ‘The sanctity of the family institution is the primary target of the desexualisation policies in which LGBT is used as a battering ram.’

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Erdoğan last spoke after the Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex last week. Erdoğan announced a one-day national mourning for the hotel fire in Bolu Kartalkaya and also touched upon the Year of the Family.

Erdoğan, who often targets LGBTI+s with the concept of “desexualization”, used the expression “crusade” in his speech on January 21. Erdoğan said:

"We are implementing measures to strengthen the family within the framework outlined by Article 41 of our Constitution, which states that “family is the foundation of society”. We see that the institution of family is under a multidimensional siege that has been intensifying in recent years. Especially the policies of desexualisation have turned into a global crusade targeting the family institution. In the face of these insidious currents, Turkey is one of the leading countries trying to form a ‘fıtrat-centred humanity front’."

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