Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today (June 5, 2016) urged Turkish women to have at least three children, saying a woman's life was "incomplete" if she failed to have offspring, according to The Express Tribune (Pakistani) website.
Erdogan's comments were the latest in a series of controversial remarks aimed at encouraging women to help boost Turkey's population, in his effort to make Turkey a world power. Last week, Erdogan -- a staunch Muslim -- said family planning and contraception were not for Muslim families, igniting fury among women's activists.
"Rejecting motherhood means giving up on humanity," the Turkish president said in a speech today marking the opening of the new building of Turkey's Women's and Democracy Association.
He added, "A woman who rejects motherhood, who refrains from being around the house, however successful her working life is, is deficient, is incomplete."
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