Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said no Muslim family should use birth control or engage in family planning, saying the practices violate Muslim traditions.
"We will multiply our descendants. They talk about population planning, birth control. No Muslim family can have such an approach," he said Monday in a televised speech.
Erdogan, a devout Muslim, has angered women's groups in the past by dictating how many children a woman should have and speaking against gender equality.
He has previously attempted to ban abortion in the country and has called for limits on Caesarean births, saying women who give birth that way generally cannot have more than one more child.
