On December 17, 2013, a hitherto unseen graft probe was initiated. When faced with accusations of corruption, the government did not choose to support an independent judiciary probe that would either have either prosecuted or acquitted the accused, as should be the case in a democratic society. Instead, the government passed legislative changes to bring the judiciary under its control.

Street children are individuals who have refused to passively succumb to domestic abuse, have either opted to abandon home with immense courage or were forced to do so by their parents, and are now struggling to survive in the face of very tough conditions on the street.

The juvenile justice system must be a part of a child-friendly justice and a holistic child protection system of a country as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Avoiding the deprivation of liberty, fast and fair judicial procedures, rehabilitation and restorative justice are some of the objectives in this system.

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.

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.

Over the past years, the World Nuclear Industry Status Report has made a name for itself as an independent and accurate reference point to researchers and media the world over. The report's success is due to its truly factual and empirical analysis of the global nuclear industry.

The necessity to assess Turkey’s refugee policies has become very clear when we consider the current situation. The decision of Turkey to open its gates to the people fleeing Syria after the start of the conflicts was a necessary and rightful one. However, a series of mistakes have been made since the first refugees set foot in Turkey

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