Currently the South-Eastern
part of Turkey has an increasing birth rate; on the other hand the Western part
of the Asian country has a decrease of child birth, resulting in the
massive increase of the Kurdish population in Turkey. This, however, goes hand
in hand with the low economic power of the region, together with the low
education levels seen in that part of the country.
The Birth rate in Turkey is
2.02%, according to the recent facts published by the Turkish Statistical Institute. This means that in 2011 1.237.172 babies were born, whilst in 2010
the number was 1.253.309 (i.e. 2.05%).
In Western Turkey the birth rate is 1.5% whilst in the South-East it is
3.4%.
Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, has asked the families in the West of the country to have 3 kids
in order to balance out the situation. According to another research, in 2023
the population in Turkey will be 82 million, which is a 10% increase. With that in mind, the prime minister wishes to move a part of the population from the South East to
the Western part in order to mix the populations, partly solving thus the issue of
Kurdistan and the Kurds, who seem to be residing in only one part of the country.
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