Have u you ever imagine that you are in the situation that you can not read or write? You will find yourself struggling a lot just to live a normal life. Surprisingly, there is 60% population of Turkey do not know how to read or write, so it has a very bad effect on Turkey’s economy. The purpose of this essay is focus on the effects of illiteracy.
The first and the most important effect of illiteracy is poverty. Being illiteracy can lead to unemployment, because reading and writing are the very basic requirements for a job. We are living in a time when information and technology appear in everything we touch, illiteracy is the only thing that prevent us from the information. A company will never accept your application even you have many years of experience. By increasing the unemployment rate, illiteracy has a very bad effect on the economy. Statics show that 65% of the Turkey population can't read or write, because of high rate illiteracy Turkey is still an undeveloped country, this is a proof why literacy is so important, every child over 15 should have known how to read or write his or her own name