by Austin Ruse, C-Fam
In a broadside against what he considers the decadent West, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that all his country’s geopolitical clout will be deployed against gender ideology and population control.
This occurred at an international conference on the family last week in Istanbul.
“The fight against LGBT perversion is also a fight for freedom, dignity, and the future of humanity,” Erdogan said in the concluding speech at the International Family Forum held on May 23 and 24. The conference was sponsored by Erdogan’s government and was attended by ministers from 27 countries from Africa, Asia, and the Balkans.
Erdogan called gender ideology a “threat to humanity, women and children” and a “national security threat.” He pledged to work with everyone to protect the family and to fight the LGBT agenda domestically and abroad.
The conference addressed a full spectrum of policies to protect the family, including defending traditional man-woman marriage, incentives for young people to marry and found a family, how to raise fertility, and the effect of technology on the family. It also featured warnings against population control, abortion, gender ideology and harmful sexuality education that normalizes promiscuity as well as homosexual and transgender behavior.