{"id":28227,"date":"2025-11-20T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28227"},"modified":"2025-11-20T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:04:13","slug":"erdogan-warns-of-demographic-disaster-as-turkiyes-fertility-rate-falls-to-1-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28227","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan warns of demographic \u2018disaster\u2019 as Turkiye\u2019s fertility rate falls to 1.48"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued an urgent warning over what he called a looming demographic \u201cdisaster,\u201d after official data revealed T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s fertility rate has dropped to 1.48\u2014well below replacement level.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Family and Culture-Arts Symposium in Ankara on Thursday, Erdogan said the latest figures \u201csound loud alarm bells for our future\u201d and demand immediate national attention.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing what he described as mounting threats to the family institution, Erdogan pointed to global capitalism, cultural imperialism and \u201cdigital encirclement\u201d as pressures undermining traditional values.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Russian strike kills 25 amid Zelensky Turkey bid<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated his government\u2019s hardline stance against \u201cgender-neutrality impositions and LGBT movements,\u201d vowing \u201cno concessions or complacency\u201d as T\u00fcrkiye seeks to safeguard its social fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Framing the demographic decline as both a cultural and economic challenge, the president urged collective vigilance, saying no one concerned with the nation\u2019s destiny can remain indifferent to the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium in Ankara served as a platform for Erdogan to rally support for policies aimed at reinforcing the traditional family unit amid what he views as intensifying global and digital threats.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued an urgent warning over what he called a looming demographic \u201cdisaster,\u201d after official data revealed T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s fertility rate has dropped to 1.48\u2014well below replacement level. Speaking at the Family and Culture-Arts Symposium in Ankara on Thursday, Erdogan said the latest figures \u201csound loud alarm bells for our future\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}