At least 71 children died from preventable causes in April

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FISA Child Rights Center published its latest study for April on “Violations of the Child’s Right to Live in Turkey.”

According to the data obtained through media monitoring, at least 71 children lost their lives in Turkey from preventable causes throughout April.

Of the children who lost their lives, 24 were girls and 45 were boys. According to FISA’s information note, the gender of the two children could not be determined.

Among the 71 children who lost their lives, 23 died in traffic accidents, whereas 12 of them died by drowning in irrigation channels, ponds, and streams close to the regions they live in as the weather gets warmer in Turkey.

5 of them were the children of the families who migrated to Turkey from Syria or Iraq. The number of children who lost their lives as a result of violence is 4.

The names of the children who lost their lives are as follows:

Enes Güler (3), Muhammet A. (3), Muhammed Durmuş (10), Güneş Demiroğlu (14) – Dindar Demiroğlu (15), Eymen Adil Dinler (5), Zafer Umut Bayram (17), Elif Yıldız (16), Ömer Ercan (18), İsmi belirlenemeyen bir çocuk (14), Civvan Amed Y. (11), Aişe Sena Demirhan (3), Aslı Nur E. (1,5), Kaan Şimşek (3), Mehmet Can (12), Metin Ufuk (2,5), Selehattin Topbul (3), H.C. (12), O.D. D. (9), Kader Y. (3), Ezgi Alya Yiğit (17), Ece Melisa Mercankaya (6), Yusuf Çağlar Yılmaz (5), Bircan Çulha (13), Furkan Şengül (12), Meral el-Hıdır (3), Osman Ashap Cıvak (2), Tulin Abo Snisleh (2), Aydın Tanrıverdi (1,5), Büşra Koçak (16), Bargıran Özkaya (5) – Menesa Özkaya (3), Ervağ K. (2,5 aylık), Mehmet Yamaç İlhan (3), Mehmet Sain (6), Feyzanur Kutluk (1), Elif Eylül Sarıbaş (9), Yüsra Elçi (3), Seda Kaplan (2), Ali İhsan Turan (9), Enes Zeki İşcan (17), Yiğit Bayrak (3), Tesnim Alo (7), M.D. (2,5), Ömer Maruf Yel (16), Bedirhan Efe D. (14 aylık), Ayman Abdulkareem Al Hardanee (6), Suna Nur Güngör (9), Nisa Gülden Sırataş (10), Beyzanur Serkaya (17), Murat İhsan Bilgiç (16), Ömer Talib Sabuncu (13), Ömer Salih Akşit (7), Mehmet Ali Kırmızı (11), Selim Çetinkaya (2), Emre Aydın (13), Doruk Dikbaş (2), Mehmet Arda Hür (14), Abdullah Fındık (18), Ömer Faruk Yıldırım (17), Sıla Marangoz (14), Yusuf Kupçak (4), Hüseyin Enes Sarıtaş (9), Mehdi Şekerci (13), Hüseyin Özen (17), Erol Erdem Kaval (10), Doğukan Can Turhan (15), Kerzi Nur Kablan (3), Hamza Tan (9), İbrahim El-Ahmed (4) and Bilgehan Küçük (10).

About FISA

Established in May 2019 under the Idea and Art Workshop Association, the FISA Child Rights Center is a non-governmental initiative that works in the field of human rights of the child.(AÖ/TB)

Source:Bianet

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