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The Umut (Hope) Foundation has shared the 2021 Turkey Violence Map with the public: Firearms were used in 3,172 incidents and sharp objects were used in 629. 3,896 people were wounded across Turkey in these incidents.

A 12-year-old child injured her/his 5-year-old sibling while playing with a hunting rifle that s/he found at home. Paramedic teams arrived at the scene of the incident, finding out that the child lost her life there.

Severely wounded in the chest as the rifle went off, the child was taken to the Karayazı Public Hospital in Turkey’s eastern province of Erzurum.

Beytullah Sakin, the 13-year-old son of a village head in Turkey’s eastern province of Elazığ, has lost his life after he was shot by a bullet fired from his father’s gun. It is alleged that the child accidentally killed himself.

Defining U.Y. and İ.P. as “children pushed into crime,” the court board has ruled that they shall be sentenced to 23 years, 1 month, 10 days and 22 years in prison respectively. U.Y.'s father has also been sentenced to 20 years, 4 months for “aiding the murder.”

On September 28 Individual Disarmament Day, Umut (Hope) Foundation released a statement and announced that 2,455 incidents of violence took place in Turkey in the first nine months of 2020. 2,061 of them were committed with firearms.

Working in a car wash in Adana, child worker H.S. found a gun in his workplace. While he was playing with it, the gun went off and shot U.A., another child worker, in the head. U.A. has lost his life in hospital.

The guests of a wedding in Antep fired their shotguns and pistols into the air. Hit by a bullet to his stomach, 12-year-old Hüseyin Cennet has lost his life.