"Turkey Values Atlas 2012" Published

"Turkey Values Atlas 2012," prepared by Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Esmer, faculty member at Bahçeşehir University and Member of the Executive Committee of the World Values Survey Association (WVSA), has been published.

"Turkey Values Atlas 2012" is the only source in its field, drawing on data from nationwide surveys conducted across Türkiye in 2011 and 2012 on a wide range of topics, from politics to the economy, from religious values to relations between women and men, and from the institutions of family and marriage to judgments on values and identity.

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 Some findings from the "Turkey Values Atlas":

• Türkiye is one of the countries where people trust each other the least. No change has been observed in this situation for 22 years. While about one in ten people in Türkiye say that most people can be trusted, this rate approaches 80 percent in the Scandinavian countries.
• Trust in the Army has declined in recent years. The level of trust in the army varies significantly by region.
• Although it has fluctuated, trust in the EU is today at almost the same level as in 1990 (1990: 36%, 2011/12: 39%).
• Turkish society is one of the most religious societies in Europe and the world. The place of religion in social life is at the highest levels.
• The proportion of those who think religion mainly gives meaning not to this world but to the afterlife is 76 percent.
• The proportion of those who think the essence of religion is following rules is 64 percent.
• Türkiye is the society in Europe where God has the greatest place in people's lives.
• Roughly one in three people both fasts for 30 days and prays five times a day.
• The proportion of those who describe themselves as "a religious person" has risen by about 10 points over the last 22 years.
• Among 47 European countries, Turkish society is the furthest to the right of the political spectrum.
• On average, İzmir is the furthest to the left and Eastern Anatolia the furthest to the right.
• The proportion of those who are very proud to be Turkish is 23 percent in Southeastern Anatolia and 88 percent in the Black Sea region.
• 71 percent of women say "the man should be the head of the family."
• 59 percent of women say "a woman should always obey her husband and not go against his word." This rate is 40 percent in İzmir and 71 percent in Eastern Anatolia.
• Those who want men to be given priority in hiring when jobs are scarce make up 60 percent in Türkiye and 2 percent in Denmark.
• 36 percent of the French and 6 percent of Turks think marriage is an outdated institution.
• Comprehensive conservatism scale values (out of 100)

  1999: 60
  2001: 65
  2011: 63