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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Muslims to reject contraception and have more children.
In a speech broadcast live on TV, he said "no Muslim family" should consider birth control or family planning.
"We will multiply our descendants," said Mr Erdogan, who became president in August 2014 after serving as prime minister for 12 years.
His AK Party has its roots in Islamism and many of its supporters are conservative Muslims.
In Monday's speech in Istanbul, the Turkish leader placed the onus on women, particularly on "well-educated future mothers", to not use birth control and to ensure the continued growth of Turkey's population.
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Mr Erdogan himself is a father of four. He has previously spoken out against contraception, describing it as "treason" when speaking at a wedding ceremony in 2014.
He has also urged women to have at least three children, and has said women cannot be treated as equal to men.
The Turkish Statistical Institute says that the country's fertility rate was 2.14 children per woman in 2015, which is just above the replacement level and half the rate in 1980.
Despite this decline, Turkey's fertility rate is one of the highest in Europe and the country's relatively young population (compared with other European countries) is still growing. The population is just under 80 million.
The United Nations Population Fund says Turkey has a "substantial" unmet need for quality family planning. One fifth of married women use abortion as a way of controlling their fertility, it says.
2 comments:
No problem! State of Texas could contain all the world's population. Just ask former President Bush, ain't fuzzy math that I'm saying this.
God's command to man was to multiply But the UN command to man is to diminish. Who is favoring life and who is favoring death?
Isn't it uncanny for the UN to legalize Gay Marriage as part of their depopulation plan [death]. The world is committing its own suicide upholding such unjust ruling by slaying the righteous through such scheme.
But having said that, the Muslim population will be almost decimated when they decide to come against Israel very soon. For those of you who disdain the Israeli you might consider go join the jihadist warriors so you can feel justified in helping to destroy the Jews because they are such thorns in your side. But if you die in the fighting you can consider it fair game.
Let me part on a good tone...
~Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
they shall prosper that love thee.
Peace be within thy walls,
and prosperity within thy palaces.
For my brethren and companions’ sakes,
I will now say, Peace be within thee.~
For Zion's Sake
that tyrant is best friend of the european leaders and US....how come they did not invade that country in the name of democracy..like they did with certain country ? because those countries refused to cooperate with their one world/one government plan ..... and Erdogan's own ambition is to re-create the ottoman's empire again...
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