“…Much research on depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms has been conducted in Turkey (e.g., Akdemir et al, 2001;Kara, Yazici, Gu¨lec¸, & Ü nsal, 2000;Ö zmen et al, 2005;Sayar et al, 2000;Sayar, Kirmayer, & Taillefer, 2003;Tu¨rkc¸apar, Ö zyurt, M. F., Ö rsel, S., & Tu¨rkc¸apar, 2005). These studies have found that anger attacks are highly prevalent (49%) in depressed Turkish patients (Sayar et al, 2000), that depressive disorder is often accompanied by anxiety disorders, and that somatic symptoms may be more closely related to the level of anxiety than to depressive symptoms as such (Sayar et al, 2003).…”