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Turkiye’s Erdogan Declares Population Crisis, Blames LGBT ‘Fascism and Oppression’ for Falling Birthrate
- On May 24, 2025, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the years 2026 to 2035 will be designated as a decade focused on family and population growth during a national event held in Istanbul, addressing Turkey’s declining birthrate.
- Erdogan attributed the birthrate drop to cultural factors such as popular culture and opposed the LGBT movement, which he described as a form of fascism threatening national security.
- Turkey's birthrate fell to 1.48 children per woman, well below the critical replacement level of 2.1, with the Turkish Statistical Institute providing these figures and Erdogan warning this trend is a demographic disaster.
- Erdogan highlighted long-term policies including expanded economic support for youth marriage, the Family and Youth Fund with 41,000 couples supported, and forthcoming child support payments to 163,295 households.
- The declaration and policies suggest Turkey aims to reverse demographic decline through sustained family support, while critics argue focus on traditional roles ignores women’s protection amid rising gender-based violence.
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AlKhaleej TodayTurkiye’s Erdogan declares population crisis, blames LGBT ‘fascism and oppression’ for falling birthrate
ISTANBUL, May 24 — In a bid to tackle Turkey’s falling birthrate, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on yesterday announced the “decade of the family”, and again lashed out at the LGBT community as “deviant”. “The period between 2026 and 2035 has been identified as the decade of family and population,” said Erdogan in opening the International Family Forum in Istanbul. “Our country is facing a great danger: Turkey’s birthrate for the first time in o…
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While Turkey saw its birth rate fall to 1.51 children per woman at the beginning of 2025, a level well below the generation renewal rate set at 2.05, the Turkish President had named 2025 "the year of the family" last January. As the situation was far from improving five months later, Recep Tayyip Erdogan overcommitted on Friday, 23 May, stating that the authorities would mobilize for "the decade of the family and the population" at the Internati…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a "Family Decade" yesterday to counter the decline in birth in Turkey, re-critical of the "LGBT Version" AFP. "We declare the period 2026-2035 as the Family Decade and the...
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