Turkish Children and Youth

Abstract

Almost all the Turks living in Switzerland belong to the Moslem faith. According to the teachings of the Koran, the nucleus of human society is a patriarchal extended family in which the roles, tasks, and duties of the individual members are very precisely set down according to sex, sexual maturity, and current age. In contrast to other holy writs, the Koran does not stop at creating an order and discipline for the individual, but also regulates in concrete terms all relations in the social and economic environments of human beings.