RT Journal
T1 TUrkey
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD June 22
VO 92
IS 25
SP 2117
OP 2118
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700510047024
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700510047024
AB A Tax on Bachelors 
    In the endeavor to ameliorate the economic and social conditions arising from the sparse population of the country (there are only 14 million inhabitants to an area of 762,736 square kilometers) the Turkish republic has for some years given attention to the question of population. Last March a bill was introduced into the great national assembly by Suleyman Sirry Bey, a deputy of Yozgad, to put a tax on bachelors. According to the bill, all nonmarried men between the ages of 25 and 45 will be required to pay double the taxes on income, road construction, land and real estate. Women between the same ages who are gainfully employed, even if they are divorced or widowed, will also be required to pay this tax. Only disabled women or women students will be exempt. Twenty per cent of the income derived from the tax will be given