Prime minister of Turkey advice to Finland: Have more children there!

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in the habit of consulting with other countries' heads of state child matters.

End of May, Erdogan called on Kazakhs to acquire five children, when the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov was visiting Turkey.

The committee told the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.

In April, received advice from Finnish families. Erdog;an called on the Finnish spring pairs to obtain at least three children.

Presented by Prime Minister Erdogan counsel Jyrki Katainen, when he was visiting Turkey in April.

Turkish public broadcaster TRT's video of a press conference Katainen says Finland's economic outlook. "I would like to recommend to the value of a colleague for one thing," replied Katainen Erdogan's speech.

"Let's not grow the economy and give the same population to decline," Erdogan instructed.

Erdogan told the Turkish Katainen recommend a minimum of three couples having children. Katainen said the recommendation embarrassed chuckle.

"In Finland the birth rate is 1.8", Katainen said.

Although the issue was apparently joke at the end of the news conference, three-child policy has been the Erdogan agenda in the past. He has repeated on several occasions that Turkish families should get at least three children.

[link to www.hs.fi]



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