However, as time goes by, the young generations tend to work in factory or move to bigger towns.

But the unemployment rate is high and the younger generation tend to move to big cities to work in industry or in services.

"Our parents' generation of lawyers tended to have a more realistic sense of what the practice was all about."

The young generation of the community tends to have little knowledge about their religion and generally do not fulfill the required religious duties.

Each generation tends to feel its predecessors got things all wrong, to be impatient.

"The old generation of imams tend to only be in the mosque," he says.

But this generation tends to take so many business trips that a weekend at home sounds almost exotic.

Previous generations tended to buy second homes as they neared retirement or when the children were grown, he said.

"Each generation they come out with tends to be quite a lot better than before."

The young generation tend to migrate to Istanbul for study and careers.