E.U. membership is the means of realizing Turkey's claim of being a democratic, liberal, just and prosperous society,

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.