PM Erdogan: "Iraq'a parliament is more diverse than ours"

Iraq has a more diverse group of national lawmakers than Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an address to Iraq's Parliament yesterday. "There is every type of representatives in the Iraqi Parliament," he said. "They are ahead of us in this respect." He added, "Eighty-two of 325 lawmakers in the Iraqi parliament are women. There is a very impressive mosaic in this Parliament."