For subscribers
Erdogan wants Turkey to have more babies. Few parents are listening
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
Turkey's total fertility rate has been declining for more than a decade, and is now below the 2.1 needed to keep the population stable without migration.
PHOTO: AFP
Ben Hubbard and Safak Timur
ISTANBUL – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has called birth control a “betrayal” and his country’s falling birth rate a “disaster”.
For much of his 23 years as Turkey’s top politician, he has urged Turks to have more children and promoted traditional families, in which fathers provide and mothers focus on the home – with three children, if not more.
