“What women need is to be able to be equivalent, rather than equal. Because equality turns the victim into an oppressor and vice versa.”

— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

As quoted in "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: ‘women not equal to men’" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/24/turkeys-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-women-not-equal-men, The Guardian (November 24, 2014)

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