Turkey's President Erdogan Calls Women Who Work 'Half Persons'
Not The Onion!
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkey-s-president-erdogan-calls-women-who-work-half-persons-n586421
Women who choose careers over motherhood are trailblazers in some parts of the world. But in Turkey they're "deficient" at least according to the nation's president.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's declaration that such women were "half persons" is the latest in a series of remarks by the leader of a key U.S. ally that has sparked outrage and fear among liberals and human rights activists, who allege he's leading the country down a path to conservative Islam.
"A woman who abstains from maternity by saying 'I am working' means that she is actually denying her femininity," Erdogan said in a widely reported speech in Istanbul on Sunday.
"A woman who refuses maternity and gives up housekeeping faces the threats of losing her freedom. She is lacking and is a half (a person) no matter how successful she is in the business world," he said according to excepts of the speech translated by the Hurriyet Daily News newspaper.
Well, I learned something, anyway: Erdogan is Turkish for Trump.
I think he should be replaced by a cat. The race is already getting heated: