Thus, Turkey needs to invest heavily in good secular schools and dedicated teachers to bring the minimum education of all the people at least to high school level. This is now being done , but not with the necessary urgency and vigor. The people of the latter do not have much hope for the future and is the source of various revolutionary movements. Such a big gap is dangerous and must be closed without delay. This brings us to the economy of Turkey, that is also strongly influenced by the two-Turkey set up.
Turkey has a free market economy and the people like it.
Turks have learned during the last 75 years to become good businessmen and businesswomen. But the market economy is guided by a state that does not really believe in that system. The Prime Minister, Mr. Bulent Ecevit, is a sickly Social Democrat and his wife, Rahshan Hanim, who runs most of his business, is a doctrinaire old-fashion Marxist. That is why the government-owned industries and utilities, that cost billions of dollars to the Treasury, cannot be sold. That is against her ideology.