Anxious escalation in suicide cases

The statistics of death and causes of death published by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) for 2020 and 2021 revealed the huge increase in the number of citizens committing suicide due to the rising cost of living.

Consequently, the number of citizens who committed suicide increased from 3,703 in 2020 to 4,158 in 2021.

In Turkey, where more than 3,000 citizens have committed suicide every year since 2012, this number exceeded 4,000 in 2021 for the first time.

The number of people who committed suicide due to financial difficulties increased from 289 in 2020 to 324 in 2021.

Since 2002, when the AKP was in power, the number of people who committed suicide due to financial hardship has reached 5,414.

MOST SUICIDES ARE BETWEEN 20-24 YEARS OLD

Another point that draws attention is that the age group that commits suicide the most is young people between 20-24 years of age.

Young people between the ages of 25 and 29 accounted for 523 of the total 4,158 suicides in 2021. They were followed by the age range of 20 to 24 years with 508 suicides and the age range of 30 to 34 years with 448 suicides.

While the number of people aged 25-29 who committed suicide was 364 in 2019, it increased to 442 in 2020 and 523 in 2021.

THE OTHER BIG REASON IS FAMILY DISPUTE

The biggest reason for suicide after financial difficulties came out as family incompatibility.

In Turkey, where 136 citizens committed suicide in 2020 due to family discord, this number increased to 191 in 2021. A total of 709 people committed suicide because of this in 5 years.

While the province with the highest number of suicides occurred in Istanbul with 574 people, this province was experienced in İzmir with 277 people, Ankara with 267 people, and in Ardahan and Bayburt with 3 people each.

The pessimism of YOUTH grows

The growing anxiety and despair of the youth about the direction of the country is also reflected in the results of various reports and surveys.

A study conducted by Istanbul Economy Research with young people aged 18-30 in 2021 revealed that 61 percent of young people who said they would prefer to ‘immigrate for a better life’.

According to research carried out with 3,000 people, 83 percent of young people were concerned about the economic situation of their families, while 29 percent said “I have a hard time living with my current income.”

According to the Turkey Youth Survey of the Turkish Representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Association, the biggest problems facing youth are respectively; bad economic situation (17.8%), unemployment (16.1%), poor quality education system (15.8%), ‘nepotism’, corruption and bribery are common (15.4%).

The ‘Silent Resignation’ report, published by Youthall Turkey in September 2022, revealed that while youth in Turkey were on the brink of unemployment, young workers were in the process of ‘silent resignation’ due to low wages.

24 percent of young people in Turkey are in the silent resignation process; 46.7 percent of them favor this concept.

The ‘low salary’ is the first of the reasons that lead young people to this situation.

ONE IN 6 UNIVERSITY GRADUATES IS UNEMPLOYED

According to February 2022 data from the Youth Unemployment Platform, while 2.189 million youth ages 15-34 were narrowly unemployed, the number of broadly defined unemployed youth in this age group was 3 million 450 thousand.

The report notes that 906,000 university students are unemployed and 1,138,000 university students are not even in the labor force and are financially idle for reasons such as losing hope of finding a job and not applying for a new one. job. This means that approximately 1 in 6 graduates is unemployed.