Young people want to leave Turkey after Erdogan's victory - and to Germany

A CHP youth group is demonstrating in Izmir against the AKP government. © Dil Toffolo/IMAGO

Concerns about the future in Turkey are growing. Meanwhile, 63 percent of young people want to leave the country. The main destination is Germany.

Ankara - More and more young people in Turkey are dissatisfied and want to leave the country. This is the result of the study "Youth Study Turkey" (Türkiye Gençlik Araştırması) by the "Konrad Adenauer Foundation". For their study, the authors surveyed 2,140 young people aged 18 to 25 from 16 provinces. The study found that only 17.3 percent of respondents are happy. 52.5 percent of respondents said they were moderately happy and 30.2 percent said they were unhappy.

Leaving Turkey: 63 percent of young people want to leave the country

46.7 percent of those surveyed named a good life as their most important goal. Foreign countries also play a major role for young people in Turkey. 63 percent of those surveyed said they would want to live in another life if they had the opportunity. Germany is in first place, followed by the USA. 47.8 per cent of young people believe that living abroad can improve their living conditions. The second most important reason cited by 20.7 percent of respondents was that there are more freedoms in these countries.

Young people in Turkey are dissatisfied with politics

The dissatisfaction of young people with politics is also striking. 70.4 percent of respondents said they were not satisfied with how they are governed. 82.2 percent said they were dissatisfied with the judiciary. There was similar dissatisfaction with the following things:

• Education policy (75.7 percent)
• Privatizations (66.9 percent)
• Minimum wage (75 percent)
• Environmental policy (56.9 percent)
• Human rights policy (73.3 percent)

Great dissatisfaction with the economic situation in Turkey

73 percent of young people consider Turkey to be a country with little economic development. 80.6 percent of those surveyed declared that Turkey's economic policy had failed. Also, 88.7 percent of young people are of the opinion that wealth is unevenly distributed. 84.4 percent said they had restricted their consumption.

Young people in Turkey against refugee policy

86.3 percent of young people are dissatisfied with the AKP government's refugee policy. 67 percent of those surveyed want to send the refugees back to their countries of origin. 91.4 percent of respondents believe that there are too many refugees in the country. 80.8 percent even assume that they pose a threat to the future of the people in the country.

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The pessimism of young people in Turkey is understandable. For years, the economy has been reeling and there is mega-inflation. The minimum wage is 8,500 Turkish Lira (TL). But if you only want to feed a family of four, you need 10,630 TL (hunger line). Add to that all other costs such as rent and electricity, and a family of four needs at least 33.752 TL (poverty line). However, a specialist in the civil service only earns between 18.861 TL and 24.519 TL. (Erkan Pehlivan)