The government has helped the peasants by price stabilisation, by cheap leans and by providing seed. Administratively, the country is divided into Provinces, Counties and Districts, each under a centrally appointed officer. Sakaltutan, the subject of this study, is a stone-built village of about 640 people, about twenty miles east of Kayseri, on a road just possible, except in winter, for motor traffic. The houses are simple, a few being still caves. The technological level is not much altered yet from traditional methods and implements.
Agriculture is the basic occupation.
The village is a compact and stable social and political unit, with a corporate personality. It is divided into Quarters, but these, thought opposed to each other, have no precise boundaries or communal activities or responsibilities. The households consist of patrilocal families, ideally of three generations, but in practice mostly of two. The village criterion of separation of households is separate cooking. Households vary in size from two to seventeen persons.