A few days earlier, Erdogan repeated a demand that Turkish women stop using birth control methods. ‘Incomplete’ without motherhoodBut that growth is apparently not enough for Erdogan, who wants to see an increased Turkish birth rate. The statistics office said Turkey’s population rose to 78.7 million last year, a growth rate of around 1.3 percent. Also Read: Croatia rely on Modric touch to tame Turkey“It would be more useful if the president could mull over issues such as murders of women, child abuse, unemployment of women, and violence against women,” she said in a statement issued to Turkish media. According to Tarhan Erdem, founder and director of the Istanbul-based KONDA Research and Consultancy Company, the ethnic Kurdish population in Turkey will outnumber ethnic Turkish population in 2040.

Source: Daily Nation June 11, 2016 13:52 UTC