Violence, neglect, abuse One in every three marriages in Turkey involves a child bride, and more than one third of girls married off are not the first wives of their husbands. The marriage age for girls goes as low as 12, and Turkey is in the top 10 for child marriages worldwide. By Damla Gürkan and Evrem Tilki
Being a child in Turkey The nuclear family structure praises children as the ”apple of the eye“ on the one hand, but reduces them to dolls deprived of will and action on the other. By Nazan Maksudyan
