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Social worker Altuğgil explains why children of the massacred families should stay with relatives. "An analysis of the feudal relations necessary to protect children from abuse."

An Adana court condemns a 15-year-old to imprisonment on terror charges. The child is accused of membership to pro-Kurdish PKK on grounds he had participated in a street protest. Rights activists demand child justice system.

A month has passed without any complaints after the collapse of a student dormitory where 17 children died. Parents refrain from filing complaints against the religious order that owned the dormitory which collapsed due to negligence, out of religious loyalty to the order.

O.S., the young man suspected of shooting Hrant Dink, was 19 years old biologically at the time of the crime, says a Forensic Medicine report, issued after the court decision to ewnd the controversy regarding the suspect's age.