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According to the “Juvenile Statistics Received into Security Unit” by the TurkStat, in 2019, 57.6 percent of 206 thousand 498 juvenile victims of crime were victims of assault while 15.2 percent of them were victims of sexual offenses.

The draft law of the Anti-Terror Act concerned with the situation of children on trial will be discussed in the Turkish Parliament this week. Children's rights advocators still find the amendments insufficient and urge the MPs to recognize related international agreements.