Effects of Terrorism and Violence on Bank Employees

The authors examine the effects of riots that were coordinated by the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) in Diyarbakir, Turkey on bank employees. They analyze responses by the bank employees to five very specific questions covering the degree to which they were affected by the incidents (in general, regarding social and work lives), level of anxiety about the future, and intent to move out of the region because of terrorism. The demographic of the bank employees were also considered. The results show that responses to all five of the questions vary by the type of the bank employed, while demographics do not have any effect.