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.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
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)