Criticism of LGBT is immediately silenced, just like the legitimate criticisms of Zionism. Anyone who defends nature and the ...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a new “Year of the Family” initiative aimed at shoring up his country’s tumbling birthrate and held the LGBTQ+ community partly to blame for it. In his ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the launch of Turkey’s “Year of the Family” with an attack on the LGBTQ+ community and ...

Turkey's president has lashed out at the country's LGBT movement amid a wave of student protests. Recep Tayyip Erdogan praised the youth wing of his ruling AK Party for carrying the "glorious ...

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Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey - unlike in many Muslim nations - but homophobia remains widespread. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose ruling AK Party is rooted in conservative Islam ...