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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 01:09 PM Jun 2016

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:

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