"Turkey: poverty increases with economic expansion
By Kerem Kaya and Sinan Ikinci
11 June 2005
Despite the expanding Turkish economy, the figures recently released by the State Institute of Statistics (DIE) point to growing poverty in the country. According to DIE figures, in 2003 the number of individuals living in poverty exceeded 20 million. This represents close to a third of the population (29 percent) and an increase of 5 percent�close to a million people�in the number of poor from the previous year."
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