Erdogan escalates anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown, slams UN and Israel at General Assembly

A week after launching a nationwide operation against LGBTQ+ groups, Erdogan used his UN General Assembly address to denounce 'global gender neutrality' policies and called Gaza 'the most inhuman concentration camp of our time.' The speech signals a domestic political pivot toward conservative mobilization, while the Gaza rhetoric—absent his usual personal insults against Netanyahu—may indicate a calibrated diplomatic stance.