Etudes par pays volume 2, PDF, 346 p., 1,4 Mo - Femise

11873_2002 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour
Migration to Turkey mainly from neighboring countries continuing. In
1989-1990 345 thousand people came to Turkey during the Iran-Iraq war
and the population flow of Turkish origin from Bulgaria were the main
sources.
Turkey became in recent years one of the main routes of illegal migration
from Asia and Africa to Europe. Now after the normalization of the
conditions in southern and south-eastern part of the country the flow of
illegal migrants slowed drastically. Interior Ministry is now better equipped
and well trained specialists are in the scene against the illegal migration.
Ethnic, Religion compositions and Spoken Language 3
Turkish is the language of %90 of the population of Turkey. The Caucasian
and several Kurdish dialects, Greek, Ladino and Armenian are among the
other 70 languages and dialects spoken in the country. The Turkish spoken
in Turkey is an agglutinative language similar to other Ural-Altaic
languages and is the modern form of Ottoman Turkish . Turkish is the
seventh most spoken and widespread language among the approximately
4000 languages spoken in the world today. More than 200 million people
speak Turkish.
There are no exact data on religious composition of the country. Researchs
about ethnic structure and spoken language shows %94 of the population is
moslem and other % 6 is christians mainly belonging the Greek, Armenian,
Assyrian churches and jewish.
Education
In Turkey, education is carried out under the supervision and control of the
state.According the Constitution, everyone has the right to receive an
education.
After 1997 compulsory education increased from five to eight years.
Investments in school building and equipment increased steadily afterwards.
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