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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsErdogan calls on Turkish families in Europe to have five children to protect against 'injustices'
https://www.google.com/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/erdogan-calls-turkish-families-have-five-children-bulwark-against/amp/"Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on Turkeys citizens in Europe to step up their rates of procreation and have five children each, saying a booming Turkish population would be the best answer to the EUs vulgarism, antagonism, and injustice.
Nearly a week after a diplomatic row between erupted between Holland and Turkey, Mr Erdoğan continued what has become a daily ritual of hurling fresh antagonism towards Europe in front of cheering crowds of his conservative supporters. "
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Erdogan calls on Turkish families in Europe to have five children to protect against 'injustices' (Original Post)
AngryAmish
Mar 2017
OP
All of these fucking men need to stop with this shit until they can have babies.
Maru Kitteh
Mar 2017
#2
That's really not a good thing to say. It fuels the rightwing's "they're invading us with their
Jonny Appleseed
Mar 2017
#3
Fake news! The air quotes around a statement, not a quote, gives this one away.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2017
#6
MattP
(3,304 posts)1. I wonder if he has any other paid lobbyists working at the white house
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)2. All of these fucking men need to stop with this shit until they can have babies.
Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)3. That's really not a good thing to say. It fuels the rightwing's "they're invading us with their
babies" white-subjugation nationalist talking point.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)4. Then what was his point?
winstars
(4,213 posts)5. Somebody call Steve King!!!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)6. Fake news! The air quotes around a statement, not a quote, gives this one away.
samir.g
(835 posts)7. He's not wrong
dalton99a
(81,062 posts)8. He's feeding the "Camp of the Saints" narrative