Erdoğan: Woman Refusing Motherhood is Incomplete

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his speech at the opening ceremony of the new service building of the Woman and Democracy Association (KADEM) has defined the equality of women and men as “being rival, hostile to each other”; and the women not giving birth as “incomplete”.

Erdoğan’s speech is as follows:

“In terms of women’s right, a perspective that is not the product of these lands has become prevalent. You don’t make iron more valuable when you equalize gold and iron. Women constituting incomplete of the humanity is precious with her grace, her motherhood. We don’t accept the mindset, which sees the men and women as rival, hostile”.

“A woman abstaining from motherhood for ‘working’ actually refuses her womanhood. This is my sincere thought. A woman refusing motherhood, refusing to manage household faces the threat of losing her freedom no matter how successful she is in the business world. She is incomplete, she is lacking.

“Producing, being in every area of life is definitely not an obstacle before motherhood. We’ve made important regulations to promote especially the motherhood of working women. We’ve realized those during our governmental term. We’ve put many opportunities into effect from leaves of maternity, parental and breast-feeding to flexible working and kindergarten obligation. The technological facilities enable our women to carry out many tasks from their home, near their children. However, I strongly reject the business world to substitute motherhood”. (ÇT/TK)