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The campaign seeks to promote marriage and bolster Turkey’s birth rate, which dropped from an average of 2.1 in 2014 to 1.51 ...

The directorate insisted it was only defining points of Islamic law. Turkey's legal age of marriage is 18 but the practice of underage weddings in religious ceremonies is widespread. Turkish law ...