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Turkey offers cash rewards for marrying early

The Justice and Development Party government is offering incentives to encourage university students to get married before graduation and to have more than three children.

Brides and bridegrooms wave on the stage as they wait for their wedding ceremony in Ankara, August 6, 2006. 206 couples married together with an annual ceremony organised by Ankara municipality. REUTERS/Umit Bektas  (TURKEY) - RTR1G5LY
Brides and bridegrooms wave on the stage as they wait for their wedding ceremony in Ankara, Aug. 6, 2006. — REUTERS/Umit Bektas

The latest promises of financial incentives by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu aim at getting young people to marry before graduating from university and produce at least three offspring.

The objective appears to expunge women from economic and social life, and confine them to the home by offering them attractive economic incentives.

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