28 percent of women who married in 2016 in Turkey were underage: Study
ISTANBUL
Some 28.2 percent of women who got married in 2016 in Turkey were underage, while the ratio of men in the same category was 5.6 percent, according to figures released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK) under the Family Structure Research category.
Based on statistics regarding first marriages, women and men mostly got married between the ages of 20 and 24 in Turkey, with the percentage of women who got married aged 20-24 being 34.3 percent. The ratio in the same category for men was 41.3 percent.
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