15 Facts About Turkey - June 2007

This picture story offers additional background information on our research on feminism and Islam in Turkey and highlights the report's main themes. Turkey has a long road ahead of it in narrowing its gender gap. In a recent international study, Turkey ranked an embarrassing 105th of 115 countries - far behind the worst-ranking EU member. Improving gender equality will involve tackling a series of deeply entrenched problems, from improving access to education in rural regions to removing the institutional and social barriers to women's participation in the workforce.
- Population, urbanization, female literacy in Turkey, 1935-2000
- Global Gender Gap Index 2006
- Population growth between 1990 and 2000
- Turkey's population
- Total female population
- Turkish households
- Marriages and Divorces in 2002
- Declining numbers of youth dependents
- Ratio of teachers and students
- Labor Force Statistics 2005
- Tensions between men and women
- Support for arranged marriages
- Turkey as a religious society
- Turks and secularism
- Turks and the headscarf