SOME DATA ORIGINS ETHNIC MOSAIC LANGUAGE RELIGION FEASTS TURKISH WOMAN FAMILY TOWNS COUNTRY LIFE FAMILY Two types of family prevail in Turkey: The traditional family, where two or three generations live, produce and consumpt together. Only the girls leave their home when they get married. This type of family is typical of the rural areas and the poor districts in the cities, but their number is decreasing. Mother and her three children - Western Anatolia   Young mother - Aegean Region Kurdish woman with her baby - Eastern Anatolia   The nuclear family, developing with industrialization and urbanization, replaces the traditional family. It only regroups a husband a wife, and their unmarried children, which is more suitable to modern social life.. Each member plays a role and has responsabilities. In both cases, whatever the economic or social conditions, the relations are based upon respect of the youngest towards the elders. A modern Turkish family posing for a photograph on the occasion of the son's circumcision in the 1950s and in the 1960s at the daughter's wedding (my step family)   Copyright © 2002-2008 GUIDE MARTINE. All rights reserved.