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Children Fought for Candies and Prayed
BATMAN,
Kurdistan (Turkey) Nov 3 (DIHA) - Graveyards filled
by visitors in the Bayram. Children fought for
biscuits and sweets in graveyards.
Because of the Ramadan Festivity all graveyards were
full of visitors. Children prayed and read Quran at
the side of graves. In Karşıya Graveyard, biscuits
and sweets caused a throng among children. They
caused trouble for the distributor and sometimes
fell and suffered danger of being crushed.
At the EU Gate, People Living in Garbage Dumps!
ISPARTA (DIHA) -
An intensive struggle is going on to let people have
a house of their own with mortgage system but 15
families, about total of 100 People live in Isparta
garbage dump. After a series of dramas like torture
in nursery school, it cannot be ignored that 50
children are critically ill.
The government promises to do everything for EU
membership, Economic and Social Council is gathered
with employers and employees and the Prime Minister
Erdoğan looks for an agreement on 'social security
reform' and on the other hand people live in garbage
dumps. They say that they were under oppression of
state-supported village guards in various villages
of Batman and Diyarbakır and they had to leave back
houses and fields. Those Kurdish families live in
sheds in Isparta's garbage dumps. They find plastic,
metal and iron from the garbage and sell them. They
also had to wear and eat what they find in it. They
have no social security and are face to face with
many illnesses.
'They only come to take military attendance'
They have been living there for years but
authorities only come for military attendance of the
men and before elections. They say that they are
under second grade treatment from the government and
they want to return to their homeland if conditions
turn to better. They spend all their time in the
dump and cannot meet their social needs. They cannot
go to the city centre if not necessary because they
are seen as strange.
There are Fifty Children in the Garbage
There are 50 children in the garbage aged between
0-15, most of which are ill and do not even have
IDs. 'We will live in the dump of the EU in the
future, nothing will change' they say. They want to
go to school.
They do not hope anything from the state but from
non-governmental organisations.
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