Gokce Uysal-Kolasin and Duygu Guner
According to the Household Labor Force Survey data released by TURKSTAT, there are still 5 million 674 thousand people in Turkey over the age of 15, who are illiterate. 84 percent of them are women. Even though literacy is more widespread among the younger population, there are still 406 thousand people between the ages 15 to 24 who cannot read or write. Being illiterate is the unsurpassable obstacle to participation in the economic and social sphere. Given that the illiterate 5 million 674 thousand people have been left out of the educational system, state-led or state-supported literacy campaigns should be expedited immediately to combat illiteracy.
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