Turkish Statistical Institute
Encyclopedia
Turkish Statistical Institute (commonly known as TurkStat; or TÜİK) is the Turkish
government agency
commissioned with producing official statistics
on Turkey, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It was founded in 1926 and has its headquarters in Ankara
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Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
government agency
Government agency
A government or state agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of agency types...
commissioned with producing official statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
on Turkey, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It was founded in 1926 and has its headquarters in Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
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