PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION IN TURKEY uate discriminatory practices in different fields and their understanding of the causes of discrimination. 3.B. Major Experiences of Discrimination and Main Reasons for Discrimination in Turkey We have already stated that the "Major Discrimination Experiences" Scale and the "Daily Discrimination Scale" are the main scales of this research. The first scale aims to understand interlocutor's observations and evaluations on discrimination in social life, where, how often and for what reason it is experienced. The second scale, on the other hand, aims to learn how people evaluate their own discriminatory experiences. 3.B.1. Which Segments of Society Are Discriminated? 25.28 per-cent of the population indicates that discrimination based on ethnic origin is high. While 25.28 per-cent of the interlocutors stated that ethnic discrimination experienced sometimes, 49.14 per-cent expressed that ethnic discrimination was rarely or never experienced. (See Graph 2.) When we ask whether there is any discrimination concerning religious belief, we see that the answers are distributed almost as in the case of ethnic discrimination. 26.59 per-cent of the interlocutors think that discrimination based on religious belief is experienced all the time or mostly. 21.43 per-cent think that sometimes there is discrimination based on religious beliefs, and 51.97 percent of the interlocutors think it never or rarely happens. In other words, different from ethnic discrimination, 1.3 per-cent of the interlocutors who mark the “sometimes” response to discrimination based on religious belief/disbelief seems to shift mostly or always to the side, and 2.8 per-cent changed into the side that rarely or never happens. (See. Graph 3). 19