Turkey set to ban TV dating shows
Turkey has announced it's plan to ban several popular television dating shows that do
not fit in with the Turkish 'traditions and customs,' said the country's deputy prime minister in an interview on Wednesday.
Last month, the Turkish religious affairs agency Diyanet criticised dating shows saying they 'exploited family values and desecrated the family institution by stepping on it'.
Kurtulmus comments are likely to raise concerns in Turkey, despite being a Muslim-majority nation, whose political system is build on secular values laid by it's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1923 with many critics saying President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been sliding towards conservative Islam.
'There are some strange programmes that would scrap the institution of family, take away its nobility and sanctity,' said Numan Kurtulmuş, referring to matchmaking reality shows, which are popular in Turkey but attract thousands of complaints every year.
'We are working on this and we are coming to the end of it. God willing, in the near future, we will most likely remedy this with an emergency decree.
'God willing, we will meet these societal demands.'Kurtulmus described the dating shows as counter to the 'customs, traditions, beliefs, the Turkish family structure and the culture of Anatolian lands'.
Last month, the Turkish religious affairs agency Diyanet criticised dating shows saying they 'exploited family values and desecrated the family institution by stepping on it'.
Kurtulmus comments are likely to raise concerns in Turkey, despite being a Muslim-majority nation, whose political system is build on secular values laid by it's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1923 with many critics saying President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been sliding towards conservative Islam.
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