Istanbul, May 4 (AFP\/APP): President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched a new attack against Turkey’s LGBTQ community in a bid to rally his conservative voters in the run-up to tight May 14 polls.<\/p>\n
Turkey’s longest-serving leader has campaigned tirelessly since bouncing back from a health scare that sidelined him for three days last week.<\/p>\n
Polls show the 69-year-old running neck-and-neck with leftist secular leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in one of Turkey’s most important election races of its post-Ottoman history.<\/p>\n
Erdogan’s campaign is being hamstrung by a raging economic crisis and discontent over the government’s response to a February earthquake that claimed more than 50,000 lives across Turkey’s southeast.<\/p>\n
He has hit back by launching daily barbs at both the West and the opposition’s support for liberal causes such as LGBTQ and women’s rights.<\/p>\n
“We are against the LGBT,” Erdogan told a rally in the Black Sea city of Giresun on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“Family is sacred to us. A strong family means a strong nation. No matter what they do, God is enough for us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Istanbul, May 4 (AFP\/APP): President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched a new attack against Turkey’s LGBTQ community in a bid to rally his conservative voters in the run-up to tight May 14 polls. Turkey’s longest-serving leader has campaigned tirelessly since bouncing back from a […]<\/p>\n
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