Turkey bans C-sections without medical reason to boost birthrate

Turkey bans C-sections without medical reason to boost birthrate

Turkey has banned caesarean (C-section) births without medical justification in private clinics, part of a wider campaign by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to promote "natural births" and revive what he calls "traditional family values" in response to the country's rapidly declining birthrate. C-sections account for 61 percent of all births in Turkey, among the highest rates in the world, with the figure rising to 78 percent in some private hosp…