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57 Children Still Under Arrest in Diyarbakir

Of the 91 children arrested in Diyarbakir on charges of inciting and provoking the people to rebellion, resentment and hostility, 34 have been released. Children rights organisations have started action to free all children.

10 April 2006 Kemal Özmen

Flaring of Clashes: More Violence For Women

15 womens organisations react to government conduct on Southeast violence saying it means more violence for women. ODP Chairman Kozanoglu protests calls for abandoning of violence, fear, threats and discrimination.

10,000 Children Suffering From Scabies

Approximately 10 thousand children are suffering from scabies in Sirnak as schools go on 2-day holiday to control spread. Dr. Sutlas of Health Rights Movement says primary reason for mite outbreak is lack of health services in the region.

10 April 2006 Emine Özcan

Monitoring Childrens Rights to be Discussed

ICC in collaboration with the Ankara Bar Association is holding a symposium in Ankara on April 17 to brief and inform child rights advocates on the monitoring and reporting processes of the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Textile Sector Top Priority for Child Labour

Republican Peoples Party (CHP) deputy Hakki Ulku has proposed a new law against the exploitation of child labour by limiting imports to Turkey of products that are result of international child labour, with textiles at top of the list.

6 April 2006 Bekir Taşköprü

Children Cant be Subject to Adult Treatment

Edmond McLoughney, UNICEF representative to Turkey says children should not have been on the streets during recent incidents in Diyarbakir: Their protection is a duty for all. The Havana Rules should be abided by in detentions and arrests.

6 April 2006 Tolga Korkut

Children Participate in Local Administration

Oz-Ge Der is running the Child-Friendly Municipality Project.The project, which is pursued with the understanding of with children for children, will include an evaluation of whether the municipality services comply with the rights of the child.

Reporters Wont Call Children Criminal

About 30 reporters participated in the training for childrens rights reprting. The participants discussed rights violations in news reports about children, and searched possibilities for a child-friendly media and childrens participation in the media.

20 February 2006

Blue Ribbon Against Child Violence

The Pediatrics Association has launched Blue Ribbon Campaign to prevent violence against abuse and negligence of children. The Association stated that violence is not only a personal but a social problem and called on everyone to support the campaign.

1 February 2006

Bursa Metropolitan Mayor Vetoes Red Streets

The Bursa Metropolitan Municipality vetoed a decision by the Osmangazi Municipality to implement the red street practice, which aims at gathering places that sell alcohol into certain areas outside the city centers.

30 January 2006 Özcan Yazıcı

Developing Journalistic Approach Toward Child

About 40 reporters and NGO representatives participated in the training seminar on Reporting on Childrens Rights by BIA² and UNICEF in Ankara. The violations in the stories were discussed and prospects probed for a child-friendly media.

26 January 2006 Kemal Özmen

Ruling AKP Is No Exception to Ban Liquor

The Osmangazi Municipality has decided to gather places that sell liquor to a region outside the city center. The Malatya Municipality, which has been administered by Islamic parties for the last 15 years, has been implementing the red street practice.

20 January 2006 Emine Özcan

Sacrificing Should Be Concealed From Child

A research by Dr. Degirmencioglu and his students reveal that the children establish an emotional bond with the animals that are brought home to be sacrificed. The research also shows that the children arent informed that the animal will be sacrificed.

6 January 2006 Kemal Özmen

Yuksekova Women Speak Out

To be a woman is to wait for your son who is in the army or up on the mountains, to realize you have been sterilized when you come back home from a caesarean, to get beaten up by your husband back home after a demonstration you have marched side-by-side.

13 December 2005 Çiğdem Mater

School Starts at Last for Sanliurfa Children

30 thousand children who work in cotton fields in Sanliurfa returned to school three months after the term began, despite a law banning children under the age of 14 from labor. The National Education Directorate is trying to make up for the delay.

12 December 2005 Kemal Özmen

Dying in a Mine Instead of Going to School

Emrah Eserli, a child labourer who worked in mines in Zonguldak, has died. Employing children is a crime against humanity, said Coban from the union DISK. Rights activists and journalists also criticize the problem of child labour in the mines.

5 December 2005 Emine Özcan

AIDS Turns a Sickness for Impoverished

We are being discriminated and faced with prejudices, says Demirer, who has been living with the HIV virus for 15 years. Professor Badur, AIDS Fight Association chair, stated that AIDS is increasingly becoming the disease of the outskirts, the poor.

5 December 2005 Kemal Özmen

Poverty Forces Families to Let Children Work

Abdullah Karatay explains that penalizing families who make their children work isnt an effective solution on its own, and that the issue is one of impoverished families rather than street children.

6 October 2005 Neval Gündoğan

Sufferings Need to be Recognized for Peace

A recent study has revealed that the least-trusted institutions in Diyarbakir are the police, media and the army. People say there is need for democratization and an end to pressures for overcoming violence and torture.

31 August 2005 Tolga Korkut

Human Rights NGOs Join Forces

Five rights organizations, TIHV, IHD, Mazlum-Der, UAO and hYd, haveannounced the establishment of the Joint Platform for Human Rights. The platform will organize meetings and pursue projects to increase participation.

Children Shoulder Agriculture in Southeast

In southeastern Turkey, some 90,000 children between the ages of 12 and 14, 50,000 of whom are girls, comprise part of the workforce. Some 80,000 of those are in the agricultural sector, with Sanliurfa having the highest rate of child employment.

10 Local TVs Queued For Kurdish Broadcast

Ten local tv stations and radio channels who have applied to RTUK for permissions to broadcast programs in languages and dialects other than Turkish, are yet to be granted permission after having waited 18 months.

Photography is Changing Childrens Lives

Sezer, who learned photography at the workshop set up by volunteers after the Marmara earthquake, is now teaching how to take photographs. The Face to Face project aims at getting children participate in social life. Sezer wants to study photography.

9 June 2005 Erhan Üstündağ

Children Call The Goverrnment to Disarm

In the 23 April Childrens Holiday, 728 children across the country draw and paint for disarmament, in Amnesty International campaign and call the governmet to cut arms expenditures.

Conscientious Objector Faces Military Court

Conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan, who is taken under custody and sent to his military unit, pending trial at the Military Court. Constientious objection should be accepted as legal under international treaties and the Constitution, says attorney.

Survey on Problems of Homosexuals

Lambdaistanbul is planning to conduct a survey on violence and discrimination against homosexuals. The survey will be a first in Turkey. The results will be compiled in a book. All stages of the survey will be carried out by homosexuals.

Journalists Protest the Penal Code on Streets

RSF expressed its backing for Turkish journalists as some 250 of them demonstrated in the streets of Istanbul calling for the shelving of a new criminal law threatening press freedom. They have condemned restrictive measures in the new law.

Turkey Unable to Recieve EU Grants

CFCU says Turkey used 20 percent of EU grants. Vulnerable project productivity of PIs is the scapegoat of the failure. Former undersecretary Yasamis asserts structural problems is the real source of problem.

9 February 2005 C. Onur Ant

Transgenic Agriculture Another Blow to Nature

In 1999 Donoughue, British Minister of Agriculture, when asked which EU committee authorized multiply the legally authorized level of gliphosate in soybeans by 200 times and who represented England in the committee, answered: I cannot reveal.

3 February 2005 Şahin Artan

Turkey Without Handicaps

The Turkish Association of the Handicapped is launching the Turkey Without Handicaps project. The project aims at raising awareness about the lives of the handicapped people among the public and among the young in particular.

31 January 2005 Deniz Turan

Children of Turkey in 2004

During 2004 child negligence and homelessness were frequently covered. The Juvenile Justice System failed to be implemented. Child labor and the futility of Child Protection Agency was not addressed. More girls started school but most remained negliged.

12 January 2005 Erhan Üstündağ

My Grandmother Heranus

During the 1915 Armenian deportation, Mrs. Heranus was forcibly taken away from her mother by soldiers. Her name was changed to Seher, she was brought up as a Muslim girl, married, had children. Her grandchild Cetin wrote a book ttled My grandmother.

15 December 2004 Yahya Koçoğlu