Abstract:

After the 1960 military intervention, Turkey was governed by a new constitution until 1980. The 1961 Constitution led to very important changes through the institutions it included. It was inevitable that these structural change processes in the political, economic and cultural fields would also be seen in the demographic field. In the demographic structure of Turkey, from the 1960s to the 1980s, a series of changes occurred in many areas such as the rate of the country's population living in cities, the education level of the population, the average life expectancy, and the business lines in which the employed people work. Every nation that wants to use its natural, economic and cultural assets efficiently needs some information about the quantity and quality of human resources in its country, therefore it carries out censuses. Therefore, migration and urbanization phenomenon between 1960-1980, applied population policies and censuses stand out as the topics that need to be addressed in order to reveal the demographic structure of Turkey in this period. Socioeconomic change in Turkey showed itself in this period with the rapid increases in the population of the cities. The main reason for the rapid population growth in cities is internal migration and its effect is quite high. In the second stage of the demographic process, especially those who migrated from the countryside to the cities were added to the demographic change process and this process continued throughout the country. The acceleration of urbanization in Turkey has been realized since the 1960s. In this period, while a rapid increase was observed in the population of existing cities, many settlements gained city status at the same time.

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