TURKEY: TURKEY AWATS THE RESULTS OF A CENSUS EXPECTED TO REVEAL DEEP FINANCIAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WEALTHY WEST AND POORER CENTRAL AND EASTERN PROVINCES

Record ID: 647878

  • Title: TURKEY: TURKEY AWATS THE RESULTS OF A CENSUS EXPECTED TO REVEAL DEEP FINANCIAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WEALTHY WEST AND POORER CENTRAL AND EASTERN PROVINCES
  • Date: 22nd October 2000
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (OCTOBER 22 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/LV OF EMPTY STREETS OF ISTANBUL (5 SHOTS) 0.35 2. SLV/SV/CU WOMAN FILLING OUT CENSUS FORM IN TAXI (4 SHOTS) 0.56 3. SLV/SV A COUNTER DOING HIS JOB; ENTERING A HOUSE (3 SHOTS) 1.22 4. SLV/SV/CU A FAMILY BEING COUNTED (4 SHOTS) 1.49 5. LV/SLV TOURISTS IN BLUE MOSQUE SQUARE (2 SHOTS) 1.59 6. MCU (English) SWEDISH TOURIST SAMY KACY SAYING: "I think it is very hard to organise the census, but it is not a problem for us, because we could grab a taxi and there is no one on the streets so it doesn't change anything, it is good." 2.10 ANTALYA, TURKEY (OCTOBER 22, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 7. LV OF TOURISTS TRAVELLING AROUND THE CITY (4 SHOTS) 2.31 8. LV/SLV TOURISTS DEPARTING FROM AND ARRIVING AT ANTALYA (3 SHOTS) 2.45 9. MCU/CU/SV TOURISTS FILLING OUT CENSUS DOCUMENTS (3 SHOTS) 3.02 10. MCU (English) DANISH LENE KONRUP SAYING: "I find it a fascinating way to count the people of this country but I have difficulty understanding how you do it? It is a fascinating way to calculate the population." 3.18 11. LV PEOPLE AT ANTALYA AIRPORT 3.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: ISTANBUL, ANTALYA TURKEY
  • Country: Turkey
  • Reuters ID: LVA4EVJHTNROZIMQ4DBF47YOTVEH
  • Story Text: Turks waited at home on Sunday for a knock on the door
    from one of a million counters carrying out a census expected
    to reveal deep financial differences between parts of the
    EU-membership candidate.



    A strict daytime curfew kept the nation immobilised.

    The normally bustling streets of the biggest city,
    Istanbul, were empty but for dogs, cats, census-takers,
    policemen and journalists with special permission to roam.

    Only in the ancient heart of the city was there activity,
    where foreign tourists pottered around the remains of
    Byzantine and Ottoman empires after an early morning count.

    The last national survey, carried out in 1997, showed
    62.6 million people living within Turkey' borders, which
    stretch from Greece in the Balkans to Iran, Iraq and Syria in
    the east.

    Officials expect this census, which asks wider questions
    about household plumbing, income and education, to show
    slightly more people and to reveal major differences between
    the wealthy west and poorer central and eastern Anatolian
    provinces.

    Sefik Yildizeli, chairman of the State Statistics
    Institute, said last week that provisional results would be
    out within a week and full details within 18 months.

    In three years since the last count, Turkey has seen
    great upheavals, most notably 1999 earthquakes that killed at
    least 17,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless in the
    northwest.

    The count took place under rain in Diyarbakir, regional
    capital of the mainly-Kurdish southeast, where the 1997 census
    was accused of undercounting thousands of shanty-homes housing
    rural migrants from conflict between troops and Kurdish
    rebels.

    With municipal funding tied to population, authorities
    want a full count and are keen to add tourists to the records.

    Samy Kacy from Sweden, touring the Blue Mosque in
    Istanbul, said the empty streets from the curfew were a
    welcome change.

    "I think it is very hard to organise the census, but it is
    not a problem for us, because we could grab a taxi and there
    is no one in the streets so doesn't change anything, it is
    good," said Kacy.

    Some 250 thousand tourists in the Mediterranean town of
    Antalya were counted along with its inhabitants.

    "I find it a fascinating way to count the people of this
    country but I have difficulty understanding how you do it? It
    is a fascinating way to calculate the population," said Lene
    Konrup from Denmark who was also counted as an inhabitant of
    Antalya a couple of minutes before she left Turkey.

    Touristic towns will benefit from counting visitors as
    government funding to municipalities depends on population.


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