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    Karte des Prozentsatzes der Cousinen-Ehe in der Türkei. Ist es ein kulturelles Merkmal, das in der Religion verwurzelt ist?


    Karte des Prozentsatzes der Cousinen-Ehe in der Türkei. Ist es ein kulturelles Merkmal, das in der Religion verwurzelt ist?

    Von Icy-Improvement-8380

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    2. Tre-k899 on

      It is a major degenerating problem, both in terms of health and intelligence.

    6. Moist_Tutor7838 on

      We don’t marry cousins in Kazakhstan, tho being Muslim. It’s not about religion.

    8. rasnac on

      Fact to the matter is it is mostly an economical motive to cousin marriages in rural areas. Poor farming families try to avoid separation of farming lands by inheritance. So they marry cousins to keep the inheritence within the family.

    9. StainedInZurich on

      Is it not just a european vs arabic cultural divide seen in the country placed in between those two?

    10. KokoshMaster on

      I’m Muslim and I can tell you it is permissible to marry your cousin.

    11. seeasea on

      This is a great way to use data visualization manipulate perception of numbers. Using a mix of color shades and different colors to give the impression of vast difference where they are not. 

      For example, green= good and red= bad in these type of graphics (cultural perception)

      Yet the difference between the NE red region (10.35) and middle-south Green region (8.39) are much closer to each other statistically (<2) than the middle-South Green and the middle green (4.82) difference (>4) which is almost as large as the entire amount anyways

    12. HumanTheTree on

      How closely related do you need to be in order to be counted in this map? There’s a big difference between siblings and 3rd cousins.

    13. Responsible-Check-92 on

      It’s more of a cultural thing than religious thing which many people are not getting. In Pakistan,almost two out of three marriages are between first cousins, whether in Bangladesh, only 6% marriages are happen between first cousins.

      In Bangladesh, marrying your cousin is not that good in the eye of the society, people think you’re marrying your cousin because you want to illegally grab your uncle’s wealth.

    15. Playful-Comedian4001 on

      They should stop it. Not good for the national IQ score.

    16. FinnBalur1 on

      It’s very clear from your map that developed and less tribalistic areas are less likely to have cousin marriage. You already know development and urbanization is the answer. You answered your own question.

    17. lonewalker1992 on

      These numbers are bad but not terrible if you contrast them to place like Pakistan where i thinks it above 70% throughout the various regions

    19. derHusten on

      I once read that it is religious, but the other way around. The Christ Church has banned marriage between cousins ​​in order to prevent the formation of clans and large families. in order to strengthen the power of the local priests. Unfortunately I don’t have a source.

    20. talknight2 on

      The reasons for this are mostly economical.

      The areas of higher cousin marriage are both poorer, i.e. there is more incentive to keep inheritances within the extended family to build up generational wealth, and less urbanized, i.e. there are far fewer options to pick from if you live in a small village compared to a large city.

      Probably little to do with Kurds specifically 😉

    21. TynHau on

      Marrying the father’s brother’s daughter is known as  بنت عم bint ‘amm in Arabic and often considered the ideal bride in rural more tribal regions. In *Türkiye* it’s more of a Kurdish thing

    23. Otherwise_Access_660 on

      It’s not rooted in religion. There’s nothing in religion that tells you to marry your cousin or forbids you from doing it for that matter. It’s a cultural thing. Some cultures do it more than others.

    25. crowkiller263 on

      It’s common among Kurdish people, also some uneducated village Turks do it as well, it’s nothing do with religion but mostly for preventing wealth distribituon to outsiders, Its like you have a family business and you don’t want it to be benefited by some stranger just because of marriage relations by law, these people are closed to outer world and only want to be in touch with someone both economically and culturally their kind

    26. humanbananareferee on

      Kurds. It’s generally popular in cities where Kurds are the majority. In Western cities, it’s usually Kurds who do this too.

    28. communistagitator on

      I had a Palestinian friend who said he disliked this stereotype and that the Quran actually says that you should marry people who are very different than you. Never bothered to look up the verse (or however they’re called)

    29. -_TremoR_- on

      Not a Turkish thing in 21st century but Kurdish and most probably Middle Eastern fugitives if they are included.

    30. Ash_Dayne on

      I’m not entirely sure it’s a religious thing necessarily. Cousin marriages weren’t that uncommon in the west either until pretty recently, and in more rural places, it happens more often than in urbanised areas.

    32. Salty-Watercress2006 on

      Why is cousin marriage (if consensual) supposed to be a bad thing?

    34. Boomdification on

      “I tell you, I won’t live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins!” – Shelbyville Manhattan.

    35. civan02 on

      which relatives first second or third generation ? parralel or cross line ?

    36. Icy-Improvement-8380 on

      Really I dont know about cousin marriages in Trakya (eastern thrace), this is not a Balkan Turkish tradition nore is it Pomak.
      So either this are the Romanlar who live their, because its said they married with their first cousins or it must be other people.
      But we in Trakya neither married first cousins nore neighbours. The Bride is allways from another village and another Family, withour blood relations. because our trad, said: The Bride (Gelin) after marriage belong to us the Grooms (Damad) family).

    39. Xousse on

      Not religion directly, but tribalism + inheritance laws. Cousin marriages are desirable to keep land ownership and other rights like water and grazing in familial hands, ie the tribe.

    40. TurkishProletarian on

      Oppressed populations are more likely to close themselves. What you see here is about that.

    45. Norwester77 on

      It’s not limited to ethnic Turks (or Kurds) or Muslims. As I recall, it was a fairly major plot point in Jeffrey Eugenides’s book *Middlesex*, which is about an ethnically Greek family from Bursa.

    47. Maritime_Khan on

      As a turk I absolutely am against the division of my country, but good lord every statistic would get better if the kurdish majority regions would separate.

    49. Far_Quote_5336 on

      Albert Einstein must’ve been a Muslim, because he also married his cousin

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