Four Wives Crisis

Then, Wolf Ruthart Born, the German Ambassador to Ankara, asked; Men can marry four women in Moslem countries. Is it also written in Koran? Is it a requirement?

Erdogan reportedly said that he would personally answer this question. Erdogan said, “No, that is not the order of Koran. However, men can marry four women in some special circumstances. He can marry more than one woman if his wife is old, ill, or crippled. Of course other wives of him should give their consent to that. Everybody should be treated equally. This is allowed.”

There is a word that when Cuneyt Zapsu, Chief Advisor of Erdogan, translated these statements, one of the female deputies, Uta Zapf said that she would leave the table if the conversation went on this way. Another SPD deputy Lale Akgun said that the statements of Erdogan caused disturbance especially among female deputies.