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Just under 70% said they never read books

No surprises there...

[paliometoxo]

i agree with the no book thing who reads books anyway? havent read one in years.. used to love it when i was 5 years old and learning.

[insan]

Yes I can see that belittling characteristic of anything scholastic right here on the forum by people like insan, who have a real chip on their shoulder that Greeks have been at the forefront of intellectualism and learning, and it is an ambition, achieved in varying proportions, by all present day Greeks and their descendants (Greek Cypriots, Greek Americans, Greek Brits etc).

Such a clash of mind-set cultures, Greeks and Turks, was always going to be bad news.

Unfortunately for us Cypriots, it's not the Greeks with their self-improvement tradition that we have to deal with, but the invading, expansionist spreaders of hate, malice and violence .... the Turks!

No wonder they also clash with the other great European practitioners of philosophical discourse and Literary tradition, the French!

Book-reading still a passtime for minority, survey shows

Greeks are unlikely to resort to a good book in their free time, according to the findings of the first national survey of reading habits in the country. Only 8.5 percent of those questioned said they had read more than ten books in the past year; 38 perc ent said they had read only one.

Conducted by the National Book Centre on 3,807 Greeks aged over 15 between November 1998 and January 1999, the survey shows that book-reading is still a pastime for the minority.

A third - 30.4 percent - said they do not read books, although 31.8 percent said they dipped into books related to their profession.

Book-reading habits appeared to be sharply drawn on sex and age factors. Women were found to read more than men. Books were popular among urban- dwellers, the young and the elderly, but not the middle-aged. Only 12.9 percent of those with primary-level education read books compared to 43.1 percent of those with secondary education.

Although 70.9 percent of university graduates said they were book-readers, only one in ten of those said they had read a book in the past year.

It is a well known fact that someone like Yallahusa posts subjects related Turks, only to belittle Turks. It is also a well known fact that such subjects is a great opportunity for u Oracle to bring up ur hatred and relax urself with ur nonsense over the subject. This is ur favourite waste of time that works as a meditation for u.

On the other hand, Hurriyet(well known with it's conspiracies and anti-EU stance) which had Konda to conduct this survey has only one political aim and that is to create an impression that AKP government failed to modernize Turkey and Turkey cannot be considered as an Eropean country.

It seems Hurriyet succeeded to create this impression in minds of ordinary Europeans like Oracle and alikes.