Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Will low-birth-rate Turks become a minority in their own country?

Will low-birth-rate Turks become a minority in their own country?
BY MARCUS ROBERTS

Turkey is emerging as a powerhouse in the Eastern Mediterranean: an economic power that has greater influence in the region and that promotes itself as a “model Muslim democracy”. However, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is worried about a problem that many Western nations are used to: a declining fertility rate and demographic problems in the medium future.

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