Men and women not equal, says Turkey President Erdogan

Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, has offended the female folk across the world after categorically saying at a meeting on women’s rights on Monday that gender equality was contrary to nature.

Erdogan, who possesses a conservative ideology, has often disturbed the settled waters of the more liberal sections of the Turkish society, saying women’s delicate nature made it impossible to place them as men’s equal.

“You can’t get a woman to work in every job that a man does, like they did in communist regimes in the past,” he said at a meeting of Turkey’s Women and Democracy Association.

“You can’t put a pickaxe and a shovel in their hand and get them to work, that’s not the way.”

He said women should be treated equally in the eyes of the law but be assigned different roles in the society, saying feminists do not value motherhood.

Critics of the 60-year-old leader have often attacked his continued poking into their private lives, especially regarding abortion and number of children families should have.

He brought religious views into his speech against the womenfolk, saying religion has defined their place.

“Our religion gave woman a station, what station is this? The station of motherhood!

“Motherhood is something different and is the most unobtainable, the highest station.

“There are those who understand this, those who don’t, you can’t tell this to feminists, because they do not accept motherhood; they have no such concerns.”

Erdogan is known for his controversial comments.

Earlier in the month, he said that Muslims had discovered the Americas before Christopher Columbus.