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| Family planning not for Muslims, says Turkey's Erdogan | |
| 2016-05-31 | |
| [DAWN] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said on Monday that family planning and contraception were not for Muslim families, in his latest comments promoting population growth that angered women's activists. Erdogan said it was the responsibility of mothers to ensure the continued growth of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's population, which has expanded at a rate of around 1.3 per cent in the last few years. "I will say it clearly... We need to increase the number of our descendants," he said in a speech in Istanbul. "People talk about birth control, about family planning. No Muslim family can understand and accept that! As God and as the great prophet said, we will go this way. And in this respect the first duty belongs to mothers." Erdogan and his wife Emine have two sons and two daughters.
His elder daughter Esra, who is married to the up-and-coming Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, has three children. The Platform to Stop Violence Against Women, which campaigns to stop the killings of hundreds of woman every year, condemned Erdogan's comments as violating the rights of women. "You (Erdogan) cannot usurp our right to contraception, nor our other rights with your declarations that come out of the Middle Ages," the group said in a statement on Twitter. "We will protect our rights," it added. | |
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