{"id":7797,"date":"2026-08-04T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:45:38","slug":"what-do-young-people-in-turkey-expect-from-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/ot\/what-do-young-people-in-turkey-expect-from-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Young People in Turkey Expect from Marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marriage is still important in Turkey. That part hasn&#8217;t changed. But young people today look<br>at it in a different way, not like older generations did. Before, it was more like a normal step<br>that everyone followed. You grow up, you finish school, and then you get married. It was<br>simple like that. Now it is not that simple anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Young people think more before making this decision. Some of them even delay it for many<br>years. The first thing that matters for most of them is love. Not pressure, not family decision,<br>just real personal choice. They want to choose the person they will spend their life with. And<br>they want to feel something real, not just a formal relationship. If love is not there, many of<br>them don\u2019t even consider marriage seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>But love alone is not enough, and young people know this quite well. Respect becomes very<br>important here. They want to be respected as individuals. Their ideas, their habits, even their<br>silence sometimes. Nobody wants to feel controlled or forced in daily life. This is one of the<br>biggest differences compared to the past. Communication is also a big part of it. Not perfect<br>communication, but at least honest talking when something is wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Equality is another topic that comes up a lot. It is not fully settled yet, but it is changing. In<br>older times, roles were more strict. Men worked, women stayed at home, and that was it.<br>Now things are more mixed. Women want to work, earn their own money, and continue their<br>own life after marriage. Men also slowly start to accept sharing responsibilities at home. It is<br>not equal everywhere, but the direction is changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Money is something that cannot be ignored. It affects everything. Many young people say<br>they want to get married, but later, when they think about rent, jobs, and daily expenses, they<br>wait. Some of them don\u2019t feel ready financially, and that creates delay. It is not only about<br>love anymore, it is also about stability. Without that, marriage feels risky to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Freedom is also very important, maybe more than before. Young people don\u2019t want to lose<br>their own identity after marriage. They still want their friends, their hobbies, their own time.<br>They don\u2019t want everything to become \u201cwe\u201d and nothing left as \u201cme.\u201d A healthy balance is<br>what they usually expect, even if they don\u2019t always say it clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Family still matters, of course. But it is not the main decision maker anymore. Families give<br>opinions, sometimes strongly, but young people decide for themselves. There is respect, but<br>less control. This is actually a big shift in how things used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Another thing is that young people think more practically now. Before getting married, they<br>talk about future plans. Children, work, where to live, even small daily habits. These<br>conversations used to happen after marriage, but now they happen before. Sometimes it feels<br>a bit serious, but it helps them understand each other better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In the end, marriage is still there, but it is not the only life goal anymore. Some young<br>people want careers first, some want to travel, some just want time to figure things out. And<br>yes, some are unsure about marriage completely. That uncertainty is more common now.<br>So overall, young people in Turkey expect love, respect, and stability from marriage, but at<br>the same time they want freedom too. Marriage is still meaningful for them, but the meaning<br>is not fixed anymore. It is changing slowly, with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conference.intraders.org\/index.php\/intraders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-16th-InTraders-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-16th-InTraders-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-16th-InTraders-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-16th-InTraders-768x1087.png 768w, https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-16th-InTraders.png 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage is still important in Turkey. That part hasn&#8217;t changed. But young people today lookat it in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2693,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2379,6773,304,6399],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ot","tag-blog","tag-dilara-ozdemir-2","tag-intraders","tag-trend-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intraders.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}