Erdogan the Islamist is still stuck in the 7th century.
Via NBC:
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.