Peace Without Poison

Equally responsible are the following Prime Ministers: İsmet İnönü (1961-1965, and twoprevious terms), Süleyman Demirel (1965-1971, 1975-1977, 1977-1978, 1979-1980, and 1991-1993, also President from 1993-2000, see above), Bülent Ulusu (1980-1983), Turgut Özal (1983-1989, also President from 1989 to 1993, see above), Yıldırım Akbulut (1989-1991), Tansu Çiller(1993-1996), Necmettin Erbakan (1996-1997), Mesut Yılmaz (1997-1999), Bülent Ecevit (1999-2002), and Abdullah Gül (2002-2003, also President from 2007-2014, see above), and RecepTayyip Erdoğan (2003-2014).Through their combined efforts – efforts that have always been coerced and overseen by theTurkish military, which has been in control of the covert depopulation program and of thecountry until Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became Prime Minister in 2003 – they have succeeded inlowering fertility from 6 to 2 children per woman, a level reached in 2010.As elsewhere in the world so in Turkey, the contraceptive prevalence rate has been raised toconceal the use of covert methods of sterilization, which in Turkey, as in the West, are primarilybased on endocrine disruptors.The historical record shows that Turkey did have the highest abortion rate in the Middle East inthe 1990s when 20% of all pregnancies ended with an abortion. Since the turn of the 21 stcentury, however, the abortion rate has dropped below 5% and plays an insignificant role in thecountry’s low fertility.Judging by the high and rising contraceptive prevalence rate, however, it is clear that the Turkishgovernment is making genuine efforts to retire covert methods of depopulation and replace themwith the people’s voluntary use of contraceptives. This strategy will fail unless buttressed bylegislation that restricts families to two children.Turkey has been rewarded for its covert depopulation efforts with a growing GDP. As the datashows, the GDP did not start to boom until the year 2000, which is when Turkey reached876 | P a g e