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“Since the Juvenile Protection Law was entered into force in 2005, the establishment and regulation of child courts in all provinces are still uncompleted. In some cases, children can be tried in adult courts even if there is a juvenile court and this is a common situation,” says Cansu Şekerci, representative of the Child in Prison thematic area of the Civil Society in the Penal System (CISST).

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Workers struggle with risky working conditions due to the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. And the rate of unemployment is rising and this causes people to commit suicide. Şaziye Köse defines suicides due to unemployment as work-related murders and she says, “We can already see that the number of suicides will increase.” Workers have kept working even if no measure has been taken to protect them from the pandemic. And many of them were infected with Covid-19 and died. Köse emphasizes that their deaths are work-related murders.

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Ayşe Tuba had filed a criminal complaint 23 times about the man who killed her. However, nobody heard her voice. Ayşe was killed in the street after being attacked. The state ignored her complaints is now protecting those who ignored her voice. “Yes, the killer has been sentenced to prison. But Ayşe could be alive now. Those responsible for this incident haven’t been tried. Why haven’t they been tried, because the state’s fault would be revealed,” says lawyer Heval Yıldız Karasu.

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Covid-19 pandemic increases the workloads of healthcare workers in Turkey, like all around the world. Healthcare workers have faced both cases and violence against them and they have also lived on the breadline. Fadime Kavak, the chairperson of the Social Services and Health Workers' Union (SES) Şişli Branch, talks about their demands saying, “We are exhausted.”

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“We need to link our arms more and form more long chains. We all have to embrace each other with our best intentions, revealing our most peaceful sides. Otherwise darkness will not really reach light. Love will not live as it deserve.”

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“People live with feelings of loneliness. Whatever women do, they cannot escape violence and death. So in such injustice and immoral period, we are struggling and we are alone. These may increase the sense of death rather than the sense of life. For this reason, unfortunately, suicides can continue to increase,” says Therapist Sevgi Türkmen.

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Every day we read news about violence against women. A woman stabbed her husband, forcing her daughter to be with men for money in İstanbul. In Adana, a man called the police and said, “I shot my wife.” Elif Keskin has been missing for 11 days in Ankara.

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It is stated that the most important cause of traumas is the interventions causing shock to the social texture. According to sociologist Ruken Ergüneş Özdemir, the ruling power is playing with the texture that will cause serious decays and explosions in the society. “The ruling power doesn’t want the society to be good,” Ruken says the solution is common life.