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How many working days in year 2007?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2007 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 5 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 2007.

Here is the list of these 5 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 2007
2. National Sovereignty and Children's Day : Monday, 23 April, 2007
3. Labour and Solidarity Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 2007
4. Victory Day : Thursday, 30 August, 2007
5. Republic Day : Monday, 29 October, 2007

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day : Saturday, 19 May, 2007
2. Republic Day Eve : Sunday, 28 October, 2007