Investigation of Extremism Behaviors of Young People in Turkey and Member Countries of European Union

Year 2019, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 142 - 155, 02.12.2019

Murat Köklü , Kemal Tütüncü , Süleyman Alpaslan Sulak Emrah Koçak

Abstract

The young people are not only in the most efficient
position at the countries but also the assurance of the future of the
countries. It is very important to grow up young people whose personalities are
balanced in today's world where everything is changing quickly. Young people
are facing with a lot of problems due to be in puberty stage or development
properties. They can also have tendency to the extremism at this stage. In this
research, it's been aimed to investigate the extremism behaviors of young
people in Turkey and member countries of European Union (EU). The sample of the
research consists of the young people from Turkey and 9 EU member countries.
According to the results of this study; the young people think that people from
different nations are as good as people in their own country, they check the
source and the credibility of the videos they watch on the Internet and social
networks and, they break their relationships with their friends who are in a
violent tendency. Additionally they have no tolerance if someone mocks their
values and if European culture threatens some religions, both inside and
outside of Europe.

Keywords

European Union, Extremism, Puberty, School education, Young people, Religion

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