Official projection shows Turkey losing demographic advantage, with economy and military manpower at risk

Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s population is getting older at a pace that is beginning to reshape the country’s economic and social outlook, with the median age rising to 34.9 in 2025 from 34.4 a year earlier and from roughly 28 years in 2007. The new figures published last week by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUİK or …