Posted December 23, 2014 4:01 PM ET; Last updated January 9, 2015 4:44 PM ET
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Do the women have to be married to the father of the child in order to get the money?
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks during a press briefing in Ankara on Jan. 8.
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[From article]
The government has unveiled a new incentive program to encourage working women to have more children, in a bid to avoid the decline of the Turkish population.
Under the new plan, the government is pledging 300 Turkish Liras for a couple's first child, 400 liras for the second, and 600 liras for the third, while easing conditions for new mothers to return to their jobs after maternity leave.
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“The protection of our family life under any circumstance is of great importance for the protection of future generations, fundamental norms, our values and moral standards,” Davutoğlu said, adding that the government’s program aimed to bring about new measures to help working mothers.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-govt-unveils-incentives-to-encourage-more-procreation-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=76675&NewsCatID=338
Turkish gov’t unveils incentives to encourage procreation
ANKARA
January/08/2015
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described efforts to promote birth control as "treason", saying contraception risked causing a whole generation to "dry up", reports said today.
Erdogan made the comments on Sunday, directly addressing the bride and groom at the Istanbul wedding ceremony of the son of businessman Mustafa Kefeli, who is one of his close allies.
He told the newly-weds that using birth control was a betrayal of Turkey's ambition to make itself a flourishing nation with an expanding young population.
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The President- who has two sons and two daughters- has angered feminist groups for declaring that every woman should have three children and saying that women are not equal to men.
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Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu, a doctor with two children, had at the weekend also caused controversy by declaring pregnant women did not have the right to decide how they would deliver their child.
"It is the duty of the midwives and the doctors to prepare them for the birth. The patients cannot say 'I want a Caesarean'. They don't have such a right," he said.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/turkey-s-president-slams-birth-control-as-treason-638353
Turkey's President Slams Birth Control as 'Treason'
Agence France-Presse
Updated: December 22, 2014 22:51 IST
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