"Literacy is Up, But Turks Don’t Read
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Jenny White
Antalya Governor Alaaddin Yüksel asked last week, “Why is it that in this country there are over 400,000 coffeehouses, when there are only 1,500 libraries?” Turkey currently has 800,000 carded library members compared to 36 million members in Mexico. In Turkey, there is one library for every 50,000 citizens, compared to one for every 7,558 people on average in the EU. A survey by the Child Society found that only 8 percent of regular library-goers go there to actually read."
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