Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan…[is] backing measures to forgive newlyweds’ student loans and offer them low-interest credit, and to allow mothers with three offspring to retire early with tax breaks…Erdogan frames his crusade for more babies as an economic movement to ensure growth…Business owners and economists predict it will have the opposite effect by keeping mothers out of the workforce…Labor Minister Faruk Celik has rebuffed suggestions that the ruling Justice and Development Party proposals…are anti-working women. Instead, the government is using “positive discrimination for women while keeping them in the workforce” with the aim of reversing the slumping birth rate…While maternity leave is popular with workers, it can be seen as a burden by employers…the economy could be jeopardized by the focus on large families and conservative views of women, said…an analyst with London-based Teneo Intelligence, a political risk-assessment firm…