Erdogan invites the Pope to give a common position

ISTANBUL (EFE).— Turkey’s president, Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdogan, yesterday invited Pope Francis to express a common position against one of the scenes in the opening show of the Olympics in Paris, in which a group of artists dressed as drag queens represented Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.”

In a telephone conversation, Erdogan told the Pope “the need to show a common stance and raise our voices together” against acts that “ridicule moral and religious values ​​and trample on human honor under the guise of freedom of expression and tolerance.”

In a statement issued by the Turkish presidency, he was referring to a scene in the show that, for most of the public, evoked Da Vinci’s famous work “The Last Supper”, painted at the end of the 15th century.

The scene showed a group of performers dressed as drag queens posing along a table at the opening ceremony of the Games last Friday.

According to Erdogan, this staging in Paris “offends both Muslims and the Christian world.”

The Turkish president had already expressed his condemnation of the scene the day before yesterday, when he said that he had planned to attend the opening of the Games in Paris, but that he decided not to do so after being informed that the event would include an LGBTQ+ show.

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