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How many working days in year 1996?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1996 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 6 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 1996.

Here is the list of these 6 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. National Sovereignty and Children's Day : Tuesday, 23 April, 1996
3. Labour and Solidarity Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
4. Victory Day : Friday, 30 August, 1996
5. Republic Day Eve : Monday, 28 October, 1996
6. Republic Day : Tuesday, 29 October, 1996

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day : Sunday, 19 May, 1996