{"id":113923,"date":"2023-05-05T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/erdogan-attacks-lgbtq-ahead-of-crucial-vote\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T07:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T04:30:07","slug":"erdogan-attacks-lgbtq-ahead-of-crucial-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/erdogan-attacks-lgbtq-ahead-of-crucial-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan attacks LGBTQ ahead of crucial vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113923\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched a new attack against Turkey\u2019s LGBTQ community in a bid to rally his conservative voters in the runup to tight May 14 polls. Turkey\u2019s longest-serving leader has campaigned tirelessly since bouncing back from a health scare that sidelined him for three days last week. Polls show the 69-year-old running neck-and-neck with leftist secular leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in one of Turkey\u2019s most important election races of its post-Ottoman history.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan\u2019s campaign is being hamstrung by a raging economic crisis and discontent over the government\u2019s response to a February earthquake that claimed more than 50,000 lives across Turkey\u2019s southeast. He has hit back by launching daily barbs at both the West and the opposition\u2019s support for liberal causes such as LGBTQ and women\u2019s rights. \u201cWe are against the LGBT,\u201d Erdogan told a rally in the Black Sea city of Giresun on Thursday. \u201cFamily is sacred to us. A strong family means a strong nation. No matter what they do, God is enough for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comments came one day after a court issued a 10-month suspended sentence to one of Turkey\u2019s biggest pop stars for joking on stage about religious schools. The star \u2014 known by her stage name Gulsen \u2014 will not go to prison unless she commits another offence. The case fed into the culture wars being waged across Turkey. Erdogan himself graduated from such a school. Gulsen has also been an outspoken supporter of LGBTQ rights in the mostly Muslim but official secular nation of 85 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Kilicdaroglu and his six-party coalition have tried to run a more inclusive campaign. Rather than respond to Erdogan\u2019s comments and they instead focus on their own messages. These include healing Turkey\u2019s social divisions among its myriad of communities. The 74-year-old has also pledged to restore economic order and secure new funding from Western investors who abandoned Turkey in the latter years of Erdogan\u2019s rule. Erdogan ran a more muted campaign when Turkey was officially in mourning for its earthquake victims.<\/p>\n<p>But his message has become more divisive and heated as the election nears. \u201cHe is once again trying to unify the masses behind him by whipping up perpetual culture wars,\u201d the Middle East Institute\u2019s Turkey programme director Gonul Tol told AFP. \u201cHe campaigns at mosques, falsely claims the opposition will close down the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), and ostracises the LGBTQ community by describing them as polluted by \u2018viruses\u2019 and \u2018perverts.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turnout will be a crucial factor in Turkey because of how intensely polarised the country has become. Analysts believe only a sliver of voters remain undecided about Erdogan after two decades of his rule. Turkey\u2019s hawkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said he was certain undecided voters would choose the \u201cstability\u201d of re-electing the government they know. \u201cI think the undecideds will vote for stability,\u201d he told NTV television.<\/p>\n<p>Soylu has spearheaded government efforts to portray Kilicdaroglu as a US-backed agent who is plotting a \u201cpolitical coup\u201d on election day. Kilicdaroglu has countered with allegations of corruption that according to the polls appear to resonate with large groups of voters. \u201cI will take money (from the business elite) and hand it to my citizens,\u201d he told a rally Thursday in the central city of Nigde.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/erdogan-attacks-lgbtq-ahead-of-crucial-vote\/article\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/erdogan-attacks-lgbtq-ahead-of-crucial-vote\/\">Erdogan attacks LGBTQ ahead of crucial vote<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3836,555,2878,3132],"class_list":["post-113923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-attack","tag-csr-news-en","tag-erdogan","tag-lgbtq"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}