Surprisingly, I had a difficult time finding information about this topic. Most of the Google searches that I did led to Turkish family vocabulary and other random links. However, some of the useful links that I have found stressed how conservative Turkey is and how that affects the household and family. In traditional rural homes, for example, the wife usually stays home and takes care of the house. This house could consist of the “man, his wife, his adult sons and their wives, and his children and grandchildren.” As you can imagine, this sounds like a big household. Because of this, the members of the family naturally tend to have close ties to one another. Turkish people usually resort to their family for help in a variety of means, like weddings, day to day sociability, finding jobs and etc. Another interesting feature about Turkish families I found is that Turkish family members are expected to do things to “support the continuation of the family.” I feel like the United States has a lot of similar aspects but family ties vary so much because of a lot of factors.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Turkey/Marriage-and-family-life
Comments