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A national survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on Tuesday identified the nine cities with the highest share of residents reporting dissatisfaction.
The Life Satisfaction Survey was scaled to the population to work out a per-capita “unhappiness” rate, and the results point to a notable concentration of lower life satisfaction in the Black Sea region. Istanbul landed around the middle of the list.
TurkStat scaled responses to local population figures so that the ranking reflects shares of dissatisfied residents rather than raw counts.
In other words, the list highlights the proportion of each city’s population that reported dissatisfaction in the survey, and TurkStat used those rates to place cities on the list.
The published results note that the Black Sea region stood out in the national picture, with several cities from that area appearing among the nine cities named by TurkStat. At the same time, major urban centres including Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir also feature on the list, indicating that reported dissatisfaction was not confined to any single city size or type.
Unhappiness rates by province (Population in parentheses)
TurkStat’s published table presents each city’s population alongside the survey’s “unhappiness” rate, enabling an at-a-glance comparison across different places and population sizes.
The results, as released by TurkStat, underline that dissatisfaction was measured and reported as a share of local populations rather than simply by absolute numbers.
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