Türkiye's Erdoğan claims Eurovision contestants threaten family values

euronews (in English)

And it’s nil points from Türkiye to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest Winner as the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed the event threatened traditional family values.

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00:00 Turkey's president has slammed the Eurovision Song Contest as a threat to traditional family

00:07 values and of allegedly encouraging gender neutralization.

00:12 His remarks were an apparent reference to Swiss singer Nemo, who won this year's contest

00:17 with The Code, a song about their journey towards a non-gender identity.

00:22 Turkey withdrew from Eurovision in 2013, ostensibly over changes to the voting system, and haven't

00:28 appeared or broadcast the contest since.

00:30 (audience cheering)

00:33 (whooshing)

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