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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.