One in eight people in Turkey in need of aid: Family ministry
(WorldNews Turkey)

One in every eight people in Turkey is in need of aid, according to statistics released by the Family and Social Policies Ministry upon a parliamentary question submitted by independent Ankara lawmaker Aylin Nazl aka. The ministry said social aid was given to a total of 10,610,928 people in 2016, daily Birgun reported on June 23. Nazl aka asked the ministry about the number of citizens receiving social aid, to which the authorities said that aid worth over 32 billion Turkish Liras was distributed. ......