Turkey's Family Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş - T24 LIVE · Rolling Coverage By Editorial Team of TLF Family Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş told parliament that surgical procedures were carried out on men in the 1990s with social security backing. The sources we reviewed document low vasectomy use and weak public information, but not a systematic program. On 12 November, the Plan and Budget Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly reviewed the 2027 budget of the Ministry of Family and Social Services. During the session, Minister Göktaş said men had been sterilized in Turkey in the 1990s through the Social Security Institution, SGK. Opposition deputies objected, and T24 reported the exchange in full . "Look, men were sterilized through SGK in this country. Is that normal? In the 1990s," she said, according to T24's account (translated from Turkish). She added that the procedures were not systematic but took place with SGK support, and offered t...