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November 26, 2020       Share:    

Source: https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkey-heimatlos/

Many Turks Feel They Do Not Belong in Their Own Country

(BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Burak Bekdil - A new study by KONDA, a leading Turkish pollster, revealed that 38% of Turks feel like "strangers in their own country." 74% of Turkish Kurds feel they do not belong in Turkey, as do 51% of "modern Turks." SODEV, another pollster, found that 60.5% of youths who support Erdogan said they would prefer to live in Christian Switzerland. It also found that 70% think a talented young person would never be able to get ahead professionally in Turkey without political connections or nepotism. In 2019, 330,289 people left Turkey to live abroad.

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