Turkish Statistical Institute

Turkish Statistical Institute
Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu
Agency overview
Formed25 April 1926 (98 years ago) (1926-04-25)
HeadquartersAnkara, Turkey
Agency executive
  • Erhan Çetinkaya, President
Websitetuik.gov.tr

Turkish Statistical Institute (commonly known as TurkStat; Turkish: Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu or TÜİK) is the Turkish government agency commissioned with producing official statistics on Turkey, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.[1] It was founded in 1926 and headquartered in Ankara. Formerly named as the State Institute of Statistics (Devlet İstatistik Enstitüsü (DİE)), the institute was renamed as the Turkish Statistical Institute on November 18, 2005.

  1. ^ "Erdoğan sacks two vice chairmen at TurkStat". Turkish Minute. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-31.