Three children not enough, have five: Erdoğan to Turks in EU

[TomSea]

Three children not enough, have five: Erdoğan to Turks in EU

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on Turkish citizens living in Europe to have five children – two more than his usual calls to Turks in the homeland – in a bid to multiply their presence in the continent so that they will be the “future of Europe.”

“I am calling out to my citizens, by brothers and sisters in Europe,” Erdoğan said at a rally in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir on March 17. “Have not just three but five children.”

Continued: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/three-children-not-enough-have-five-erdogan-to-turks-in-eu.aspx?pageID=238&nID=110942&NewsCatID=510

[Fishrrman]

"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."

-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan (president of Turkey)

[TomSea]

The Kurds are set to demographically outnumber the Turks in Turkey at some point by 2050 I believe. It shows Erdogan has studied some demographics.  It shows Turkey is not exempt to this as well.

[MajorClay]

kick Turkey out of EU and Nato

[The_Reader_David]

kick Turkey out of EU and Nato

Turkey isn't in the EU, and has no chance of getting in unless it somehow manages to get back to Ataturk-style secularism (or better still, a kinder, gentler version of Ataturk-style secularism) which is vanishingly unlikely so long at Erdogan or anyone else form the AK party is in charge.

Why they are still in NATO is a mystery to me.  Of course, those who still fancy that Russia is a dangerous ideologically expansionist power still think Turkish NATO membership makes sense.