Internal Migration of Turkey’s Older Population
Internal Migration of Turkey’s Older Population

Author(s): Sutay Yavuz
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Evaluation research, Demography and human biology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; migration; older population; internal migration;
Summary/Abstract: Internal population movements began to gain momentum in the mid-1950s in Turkey due to significant political, economic and social transformation that the country had experienced after the Second World War (SIS, 1996; İçduygu & Sirkeci, 1998; Özbay & Yücel, 2001; Kocaman, 2008). Likewise, in many other contexts in Turkey too, internal migration gained speed and began to affect Turkey’s economic, social and political dynamics with massive “rural to urban” flows in 1950s (SIS, 1996; Özbay & Yücel, 2001). This migration type continued to dominate 1960s and 1970s as well. Beginning from the 1980s, urbanization level increased substantial level and urban centers largely began to receive population from other district centers. That is to say, since then principal direction of migration changed to “urban to urban” type (Gedik, 1998).

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