16. Sayı; TURAN-SAM SONBAHAR Sayısı, 2012

TURAN-SAM(TURAN-CSR)YIL: 2012 * CİLT: 4 * SAYI: 16 * SONBAHAR, 2012YEAR: 2012 * VOLUME: 4 * ISSUE: 16 * AUTUMN, 2012TURAN STRATEJİK ARAŞTIRMALAR MERKEZİ DERGİSİ(JOURNAL OF TURAN CENTER FOR STRATEGICAL RESEARCHES)www.turansam.org(*) Results for the years 2007 and 2008 have been revised in line with populationprojections.Social networking websites are also drawing great interest in Turkey. As of 1July 2010, 22,552,540 Turks are users of Facebook, the most famous of thesewebsites. Turkey occupies fourth place after the U.S.A., the United Kingdom andIndonesia. 19 (Facebook has reported that in average users spend 55 minutes onFacebook.) 20 According to internet statistics conducted by Comscore in 2009, Turkeyoccupies 7 th place in Europe in terms of internet users. What is of greater interest isthat with an average of 32 hours internet usage and 3044 pages viewed, internet usersin Turkey spend the highest time on the internet in the whole of Europe. According toComscore, there are approximately 17 million individual user of the internet inTurkey, but when mass usage as is the case with internet cafes, and internet usage viamobile phones are taken into account, this number exceeds 26 million and isincreasing every day. 21THE RISE OF “THE INDIVIDUAL AGAINST THE STATE” AND OF“DEMOCRACY AGAINST SECULARISM” DURING GLOBALISATIONWhen paradoxes arose between “the state and the individual” and between“secularisation and democracy” in the early Republican period, preferences weremade for the state and for secularisation and the policies adopted were “for the people19Nickburcher, “Facebook Usage Statistics by Country”, 2 July 2010, (online)http://www.nickburcher.com/2009/12/facebook-usage-statistics-by-country.html. 09.07.201020Facebook “Average User Figures”, (online) http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics,12.07.2010.21 Comscore “Turkey Has 7th Largest and Most Engaged Online Audience in Europe”, 27 May 2009,(online)http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/5/Turkey_has_Seventh_Largest_Online_Audience_in_Europe, 20.08.2010.11