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The Crisis of Population Knowledge in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Frederic C. Shorter
Frederic C. Shorter*
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Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University
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The main purpose of this paper is to present some basic information about the population of Turkey and its interpretation in a manner which readers of New Perspectives will find interesting for their purposes. One way to do this is to notice how certain population issues are handled in the public and scholarly discourse. Then, as a demographer and social scientist I will comment on some of these issues and hope to clarify them. Second is to present some of the main features of the macro-demography of Turkey. The account is unavoidably quantitative, but I hope digestible even by those who have aversions to numerical analysis. When the truly large changes in the size and age structure of the population are seen, important questions about the effect of these changes on other fields arise, and it is interesting to think about them. Third, the urbanization of Turkey is one of the central and most important changes in the demographic structure of the society during the last 40 years. I mention its characteristics along with a brief look at the effects on the demography of Istanbul.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 12 , Spring 1995 , pp. 1 - 31
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1995

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