Are laws regarding the protection of children lacking?
The main issue is not the letter of the law. There is poor implementation. And there aren’t appropriate institutions where laws can be implemented. As I said before, schools are too crowded in big cities, and they lack appropriate facilities for children. We also need to educate educators, for example, about sexual abuse of children. They should know where to report it when they face such cases. There is a hotline “alo çocuk” [hello child] for reporting cases related to children. I once saw some underage beggars in a central İstanbul location and called the number to report it. The response I got was that they were located in Ankara, and they couldn’t help because their people were on leave for a national holiday. They told me to go to a police station to report it, and the children should wait at the police station until somebody is available to help them. Has anything changed since you first became involved in children’s rights issues? There have been a lot of improvements, although
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