Turkey's Erdogan: No Muslim family should engage in birth control
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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“We will multiply our descendants. They talk about population planning, birth control. No Muslim family can have such an approach,” he said in a speech in Istanbul broadcast live on television.
“Nobody can interfere in God’s work. The first duty here belongs to mothers,” he said. Women’s groups and opposition politicians have criticized Erdogan, a devout Muslim for telling women how many children to have and dismissing the Western idea of gender equality.
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He has previously equated birth control with treason.
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