“It has been confirmed that he is suffering from foot in mouth syndrome”

“Nobody can slander me or my colleagues when it is obvious how I have personally defended women’s movement throughout my 40-year political career,” he said.

Erdogan, a devout Muslim, told an international conference on justice and rights for women on Monday that women should not be regarded as equal to men and claimed feminists in Turkey reject the idea of motherhood.

Erdogan also said justice rather than equality was what women needed, adding that manual labor work was against women’s “delicate nature”.

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