TY - JOUR T1 - TUrkey Y1 - 1929/06/22 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700510047024 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 2117 EP - 2118 VL - 92 IS - 25 N2 - 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 SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700510047024 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700510047024 ER -