Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the Family and Culture-Art Symposium in the capital Ankara, highlighting what he described as the growing challenges facing the family as an institution.
Focusing on the pressures facing families, Erdoğan stated:
“We are taking measures against the impositions of gender neutrality and LGBT movements, without allowing any concessions or negligence.”
He emphasized that Turkey is defending the family at a time when global capitalism is opening new fronts, while cultural imperialism and digital encirclement are intensifying across the world, reports AA.
The Turkish President also warned of a demographic crisis, noting that “we are currently facing a catastrophe,” as official data shows that the country’s overall fertility rate dropped to 1.48 last year.
Erdoğan added that the decline in the birth rate “sounds like an alarm bell for our future,” stressing that “no one who cares about the fate of this country can remain indifferent.”
