Demography of Ethnicity in Turkey

Eryurt, Mehmet Ali; Koç, Īsmet

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8891-8_23

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“…Since the 1980s, the east of Turkey has been under the influence of a low-intensity armed conflict between the Turkish state and the non-state Kurdish armed forces which has resulted in numerous periods of combat, particularly in rural areas. Kurds are the CHILD WELL-BEING UNDER POVERTY AND CONFLICT 10 largest non-Turkish ethnic minority group in Turkey, constituting 17.2% of the overall population, and mainly reside (60%) in the eastern part of Turkey (Eryurt & Koç, 2015).…”

Section: The Context In the East Of Turkeymentioning

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Under poverty and conflict: Well-being of children living in the east of Turkey.

Kara¹,

Selçuk²

2020

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Children living in armed conflict zones are often exposed to political violence and other risk factors that may be caused or exacerbated by the conflict, such as poverty and family violence. If left untreated, these experiences may cause psychological problems throughout life. This study investigates the psychological well-being of children living in the low-intensity armed conflict zone in Turkey in relation to their adverse experiences. We collected data from 409 caregivers for their children (236 girls) aged 5.5 to 18 years (M = 11.50, SD = 3.65). Caregivers provided information regarding their children's emotional and behavioral problems (internalizing, externalizing and total problems, post-traumatic stress symptoms -PTSS), income, family violence and armed conflict experiences. Caregivers reported moderate levels of problems among children. The prevalence of subclinical/clinical (T ≥ 60) scores were 14.3% for internalizing, 12.6% for externalizing and 14% for total problems, and 7.9% for PTSS. Notably, almost all families resided in extreme poverty. The prevalence of family violence was 36%.Children were frequently exposed to conflict-related events. Hierarchical regressions showed that, after controlling for the role of demographic variables and other risk factors, income predicted total problem level ( = -.10), and family violence ('s = .17 to .26) and armed conflict ('s = .13 to .20) experiences predicted internalizing, externalizing and total problems, and PTSS levels. Our findings suggest that family violence and armed conflict pose a significant risk to children's psychological well-being and inform intervention strategies and policy decisions to promote welfare in such disadvantaged contexts.

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Section: The Context In the East Of Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

Under poverty and conflict: Well-being of children living in the east of Turkey.

Kara¹,

Selçuk²

2020

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…While official figures are outdated, recent research conducted by qualified scholars and institutions have provided reliable data regarding the current size of the Kurdish population and its spatial distribution in Turkey. The 2008 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey , for instance, shows that the Kurdish population in Turkey is around 17.2 percent of the total and that 60 percent of the Kurds live in the east of the country (Eryurt & Koç, 2015, p. 488). Similarly, research conducted by KONDA in 2010 indicates that the Kurds constitute 18.3 percent of the country’s total population and that 66 percent of the Kurds reside in the east of Turkey (KONDA, 2011).…”

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“…5 The 1965 Population Census, the last census which collected and released data regarding the ethnic identity of Turkish citizens based on their mother tongue, shows that the size of the Kurdish population was 9.9 percent in 1965, and 81.7 percent of them would live in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia (Mutlu, 1996, p. 533). As Eryurt and Koç (2015, p. 488) argue, the rapid increase in the size of the Kurdish population since 1965 must have been due to ‘high fertility, as well as declining mortality rates’ and that ‘Kurds took more and more courage to declare their ethnic identity in this period’. The rapid decrease in the relative proportion of the Kurds living in the East of Turkey is, on the other hand, due to the ongoing migration from the eastern to western parts of Turkey since the 1960s and the internal displacement of Kurds in 1990s.…”

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Ethnicity and Elections in Eastern Turkey: What do the Kurds Want?

Yeğen

Tol²,

Çalışkan³

2020

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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Relying on a survey conducted in 2014 in 12 provinces in eastern Turkey, this article analyses the extent to which (a) ethnicity and religiosity shape Kurds’ electoral choices and (b) the Kurds in the East support the demand for education in Kurdish and the demand for self-rule for Kurds. The findings demonstrate that ethnicity is an important factor in shaping Kurds’ electoral choices and that the demands for education in Kurdish language and self-rule are backed not only by the vast majority of those Kurds who support the pro-Kurdish party but also by a significant number of those Kurds who support the AK Party.

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“…We point to Dündar's work since her exploratory MA thesis forms the basis to almost all subsequent studies using TDHS language data as a proxy of ethnicity. It is difficult to comprehend how a proxy becomes "quite sufficient" just because it stands for a "sensitive issue", and it is certainly unfortunate that this proposition, which has never been empirically verified in the Turkish context, still finds its place in recent studies (for instance Eryurt and Koç, 2015) blankly rejecting the apparent language shift and disregarding the emergence of monoglot Turkish speakers among Kurds with higher levels of formal education.…”

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Language shift among Kurds in Turkey: A spatial and demographic analysis

Zeyneloğlu¹,

Sirkeci²,

Civelek³

2016

Kurd. Stud.

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This study explores language shift and interregional migration among Turkey’s Kurdish-origin population using census data as well as TDHS data. First, the geographical retraction of the Kurdish language between 1945 and 1965 is depicted using respective censuses as data sources. Second, patterns of intergenerational language shift and the effects of migration and education on this shift are elaborated utilising 2003 TDHS data and the 2000 Census data. Interregional mobility by birth regions and language concentration across Turkey has also been mapped. The Kurdish population in Turkey appears to be on the verge of near-universal bilingualism prompting concerns about the future of the language.ABSTRACT IN KURMANJIGuherîna zimanî di nav kurdan de li Tirkiyeyê: Nirxandineke mekanî û demografîkEv xebat, bi rêya tehlîlkirina daneyên serjimêriyê û herwiha daneyên TDHSyê, dikeve pey têgihiştina guherîna zimanî û koçberiya nav-herêmî di nav nufûsa kurd-regez a Tirkiyeyê de. Pêşiyê, bertengbûna coxrafî ya zimanê kurdî di navbera 1945 û 1965an de bi rêya tehlîla daneyan hatiye nîşandan. Paşê, awa û qalibên ziman-guheriya ji nifşekî bo nifşê din û tesîra koçberî û perwerdeyê li ser wê guherînê hatine nirxandin bi rêya bikaranîna daneyên TDHSya 2003yan û serjimêriya 2000an. Herwiha, hereketa mirovan ya ji herêmekê bo herêmeke din li gor herêma wan a jidayikbûnê, û paye û belavbûna zimanan li seranserê Tirkiyeyê hatiye bi nexşekirin. Wisa diyar e ku gelê kurd li Tirkiyeyê li ber duzimaniyeke seranserî ye, ku ev yek fikaran li dor paşeroja zimanî durist dike.ABSTRACT IN SORANI

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Demography of Ethnicity in Turkey

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Under poverty and conflict: Well-being of children living in the east of Turkey.

Under poverty and conflict: Well-being of children living in the east of Turkey.

Ethnicity and Elections in Eastern Turkey: What do the Kurds Want?

Language shift among Kurds in Turkey: A spatial and demographic analysis

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