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How many working days in year 2014?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2014 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 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2014.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2014
2. National Sovereignty and Children's Day : Wednesday, 23 April, 2014
3. Labour and Solidarity Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2014
4. Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day : Monday, 19 May, 2014
5. Ramadan Feast (Eid al-Fitr) : Monday, 28 July, 2014
6. Ramadan Feast (Eid al-Fitr) : Tuesday, 29 July, 2014
7. Ramadan Feast (Eid al-Fitr) : Wednesday, 30 July, 2014
8. Sacrifice Feast (Eid al-Adha) : Monday, 6 October, 2014
9. Sacrifice Feast (Eid al-Adha) : Tuesday, 7 October, 2014
10. Republic Day Eve : Tuesday, 28 October, 2014
11. Republic Day : Wednesday, 29 October, 2014

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Victory Day : Saturday, 30 August, 2014
2. Sacrifice Feast (Eid al-Adha) : Saturday, 4 October, 2014
3. Sacrifice Feast (Eid al-Adha) : Sunday, 5 October, 2014