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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Rise in sexual
abuse of minors in Turkey sets alarm bells ringing Ercan Yavuz,
Today’s Zaman, www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_openPrintPage.action?newsId=144149 [accessed 29 August
2014] Drawing on
statistics she gathered working with experts and civil society groups, Arıtman says 4 percent of all children in Turkey are
subject to sexual abuse, with 70 percent of the victims being younger than
10. “Contrary to popular belief, boys are subject to sexual abuse as
frequently as girls. In reported cases of children subject to commercial
sexual exploitation, 77 percent of the children came from broken homes.
Twenty-three percent lived with their parents, but in those homes domestic
violence was common. The biggest risk faced by children who run away and live
on the street is sexual exploitation. Children kidnapped from southeastern
provinces are forced into prostitution here. Today, it is impossible to say
for certain how many children in Turkey are being subjected to commercial
sexual exploitation, but many say official information is off by at least 85
percent.” According to
research Polat conducted himself, the frequency of
cases of sexual abuse and exploitation is highest in the cities of
İstanbul, Diyarbakır and Bursa. Children trafficked from countries
such as ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT - Report on
the scale, scope and context of the sexual exploitation of children [PDF] Freddie Nickolds and Maud Ballez, ECPAT International, July 2020 [accessed 25 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Turkey.
The overview gathers existing publicly available information on sexual
exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child sexual
exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes, sexual exploitation
of children through prostitution, child early and forced marriage (CEFM) and
identifies gaps, research needs, and recommendations. Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/turkey/ [accessed 9
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The constitution requires the state to take measures
to protect children from exploitation. The law criminalizes sexual
exploitation of children and mandates a minimum sentence of eight years in
prison. The penalty for conviction of encouraging or facilitating child
prostitution is up to 10 years’ imprisonment; if violence or pressure is
involved, a judge may double the sentence. The age of consent
for sex is 18. The law prohibits producing or disseminating child pornography
and stipulates a prison sentence of up to two years as well as a fine for
violations. Incest involving
children remained a problem, although prosecutions remained minimal. The law provides
prison sentences of up to five years for incest. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 8 June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/turkey2001.html [accessed 9 March
2011] [62] The Committee
recommends that the State party continue to undertake measures to prevent and
combat all forms of economic exploitation of children, including commercial
sexual exploitation. [63] While noting
that a number of centers have been established, with the collaboration of
non-governmental organizations, to provide counseling, training and
rehabilitation services for children living in the streets, the Committee
nevertheless expresses its concern at the significant number of such children
and notes that assistance is generally only provided to them by
non-governmental organizations. Woman jailed for
forcing child into sex trade Independent Online
(IOL) News, www.iol.co.za/news/world/woman-jailed-for-forcing-child-into-sex-trade-1.226224 [accessed 1 January
2011] Last week a
non-governmental organisation said there was a
growing trend in the abduction and sale of Tajik boys for sexual exploitation
abroad. The Modar organisation
said groups in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey,
Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much as $70 000 for
a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. Bariş Altintaş,
Turkish Daily News, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 August
2011] SPREAD OF INTERNET
USE FACILITATES CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - However, according to the report titled
“Situational Analysis of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in The report found
that the most widely abused group of children was girls between 12 and 18
years old, but that there was also a substantial number of boys who were
victims of sexual abuse. Child prostitution occurs in a variety of locales,
ranging from slums to the rich, and the culprits have no common profile other
than being men. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Country Narratives
- Office to Monitor
and Combat Trafficking in Persons, June 3, 2005 www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/46616.htm#turkey [accessed 1 August
2011] ECPAT takes
Make-IT-Safe to Turkey ECPAT, Make-IT-Safe
Campaign Updates, 19-21 April 2005 www.make-it-safe.net/eng/campaign.asp#a3 [accessed 1 August
2011] One of the biggest
international investigations into child pornography on the Internet pointed
to CSEC Overview ECPAT International At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 August
2011] Commercial sexual
exploitation of children has grown in Tajik court to try
"pimp-mother" BBC Monitoring
International, 9 July 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 August
2011] In February 2002,
the accused adopted the underage girl, as it became known later, with a view
to sexual exploitation. She took the 12-year-old girl to the UAE three months
afterwards, where the girl (an ethnic Tatar) was for the first time forced
into prostitution. The following year, they stayed in In February 2003,
they were deported from the UAE, but this did not stop the resourceful
"mother", and the girl was taken to ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - TURKEY [PDF] ECPAT International,
2008 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-TURKEY_ENG.pdf [accessed 1 August
2011] Child prostitution
is the main form of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in Many children who
run away from home head for Istanbul, the largest city, and some are forced
into sexual exploitation to survive. Most boys seem to run away for financial
reasons (in the hope of earning higher incomes), and because they lack a
loving and supportive family environment; girls seem to leave home for
similar reasons but also because of violence to which they were exposed at
home. Some children also travel to the city in search of the ‘easy and free’
lifestyle they presume their friends are leading, only to find themselves in
very difficult circumstances. Lack of protection mechanisms targeting such
migrant children make them extremely vulnerable to sexual exploiters or
intermediaries. In addition, children surviving on the streets are sometimes
ensnared into prostitution through activities that they take up in the
red-light districts, such as selling basic items, and slowly start to see
prostitution as a way to earn a living. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/turkey.htm [accessed 1 January
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Girls are trafficked to Human Rights Reports
» 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61680.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- In
December two sociologists published the results of their one‑year study
on child prostitution in Human Rights
Reports » 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41713.htm [accessed 5 April
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– In May, police took testimony from a 17-year-old Romanian victim who
described a common trafficking scenario. The victim reported that when she
was in ninth grade she came in contact with traffickers who promised her a
job with good wages in All
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