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Culture wars: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive

Culture wars: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive

Update: 2024-10-26
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What’s behind the evolution of President Erdogan’s narrative on LGBT issues, and how did Turkey’s Islamic conservatives find common ground with American Evangelicals? President Erdogan skipped the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris in August after his granddaughter warned him about the “LGBT show”. He berated the French organisers for “debasing humanity to a level below animals”. His anti-LGBT push is relatively recent. We take a look at one battlefield of the global culture war.

Producer: Kriszta Satori
Presenter: Krassi Twigg

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Culture wars: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive

Culture wars: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive

BBC World Service