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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rich Booth

Turkey’s president takes bizarre swipe at Eurovision in speech about declining birth rates

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Turkey’s president has taken a bizarre swipe at the Eurovision Song Contest, accusing it 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.

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