Minister’s remarks on homosexuality stirs strong feelings

News,etc. “Are you not concerned that homophobic murders might increase in the society because of the comments made by your minister?” was among the written questions put to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan by the Istanbul deputy Mehmet Sevigen following the strong reaction to State Minister Selma Aliye Kavaf in charge of family and women’s affairs who declared at a newspaper interview that homosexuality is a disease that should be cured. Kavaf, one of the women cabinet members was interviewed by the Hurriyet newspaper’s Sunday supplement on various topics including her background as a teacher, her family life, her likes and dislikes. “I believe that homosexuality is a biological disorder, a disease that should be cured. I do not have a positive approach towards the issue of homosexual marriages. We don’t have any work underway regarding this topic at our ministry. Furthermore, we have not received any request to this effect,” said Kavaf during the interview. She also expressed her disapproval of television serials that show couples kissing each other. “When the journalists asked me what I think about couples kissing each other in the serial ‘Forbidden Love,’ I said such scenes are aired in the United States and Europe in coded format. Those who want to watch them buy them using a password. Those scenes may not be important in the morally degenerative sense for 40 or 50 year olds, but they might have different effects on 4 to 10 year olds,” Kavaf commented. The serial she likes most is the controversial “Valley of Wolves” where a group of underground gang supposedly protects Turkey’s national rights through a lot of violence and bloodshed. The serial had caused Israel to protest Turkey last year, when in one of the episodes Israeli agents kidnap Turkish kids and the chief character raids the […]
