Some 250,000 children sexually abused in Turkey in past decade

In the past decade 250,000 children have been sexually abused in Turkey, that is one too many coming from an Islamic society. I personally put a higher standard for a majority Muslim nation, but do expect them to fall for the evil pleasures of this life.

"At least 250,000 minors have been sexually abused in Turkey over the past decade, with 7,000 raped in 2010 alone, according to a survey conducted by a prominent Turkish researcher."
www.hurriyetdailynews.com...

In Pakistan homeless Afghan street kids were raped and molested many times over. It makes me depressed that Pakistan was formed based on Islamic values, the whole division of Pakistan from India revolved around Islam, and to have such immoral activities, so widespread brings me to tears.

I have seen it with my own eyes, otherwise I wouldn't be so confidently talking about Pakistan. I'm not picking on Pakistan, but many other Muslim nations face the same issue and they need to conduct research and bring it to light, and punish those responsible in the harshest terms.

In Pakistan, "In 2003, some 1,826 cases of sexual abuse against children - 975 boys and 851 girls - were reported to the police, a marked increase from the 679 cases reported in 2002."
www.irinnews.org...

Obviously this is extremely under reported, when I say extremely, I mean it. Kids do not even have the courage to report it to their own families, how would they find the courage to report it to Police. Since most of the time the victims are from lower economic class, even if they go to their parents, and their parents go to the Police, in Pakistan especially, due to corruption the case can easily be wiped clean considering how rich you are.

10,000 rupees can get you out of a robbery, probably 100,000 rupees can get you out of rape. It is common practice in Pakistan, but denial won't solve this problem.

All in all I'm proud of Turkey for taking this issue at hand, and making it public, because only the public can stop such acts of violence, not to mention effective punishments. The police can't be everywhere to protect the public, and the public need to make it their own responsibility to make sure such things don't happen.

The public need to take care of the vulnerable, those small kids in Pakistan who go from house to house buying paper, cardboard, and metal are very vulnerable to rape, any predator can invite them in and do what ever they want, and nothing will happen to those rich predators, as corruption is rampant.

reply to post by P3ACE0WAR


They say kids are protected but I just don't see it..

Even here in Australia the figures on abused kids is mind blowing..
I doubt it is much different in most countries so I wouldn't single one out..

The sad part here is that kids have more chance of being abused while in the care of our child protection agency..
How to comprehend that one simple fact other than to say protections isn't working..

I live in Turkey off and on, and I have noticed that it has been destabilized over the past 10 years, as well as other middle east nations. Though one needs to consider that over 20 million people live just in Istanbul alone, the real population may be higher because the city under reports their numbers by a lot, and with a population that high certain crimes are harder to report and punish.

Though you need a bit of comparison, in 2007 alone in America there were 248 thousand rapes, numbers quite a few times higher than Turkey. So its not that an islamic country has high numbers, its that people in general deal with stress badly, and we need to educate people all over the world how to cope with their problems.

Edit to add: I am also wondering why you added Pakistan in with a article on Turkey, they are separated by several countries and suffer drastically different social problems.

reply to post by backinblack


Yes you're right.

I believe that the solution lies in having healthy families (the basic fabric of society), and close communities. Then again I have heard of cases in Pakistan where the mothers and fathers out of poverty PIMP on their kids. It is disgusting and not for the weak hearted. If both strong family and strong community existed, people would aware themselves of such acts and would use any means necessary to eradicate it from their own community.

If those families were in fact strong, they would not allow their kids to suffer. How can we understand something we haven't been through, but only seen from a third person perspective.

people,men and women,that do these horrific things to children are the most disgusting,putrid,nasty,heartless,fowl and repulsive people known to the world in my opinion..i believe anyone that has ever been found guilty doing this to the innocent children shold be irradicated...why let them live? so they can repeat the horrible things over and over again? its dispicable

reply to post by Aziroth


The reason why I added Pakistan had to do with my own experience. I have witnessed such acts of evil in Pakistan, and have also witnessed how corruption effects such cases, and leaves people helpless, especially the lower class.

Pakistan is important in this case to widen the boundaries of the discussion, and discuss some other reasons which might effect the high numbers of child sexual abuse and the lack of reporting. Also would like to add the possible solution in to stopping such disgusting and evil crime committed against defenseless and vulnerable children.

Obviously vulnerability is very important, firstly they are kids, and add to that their economic situations makes them double vulnerable, add corruption makes them triple vulnerable.

The worst part about kids being sexually abused (if there is ONE worst part) Is that it is a very harsh cycle that will just keep repeating itself. People who were abused as children may repeat the act on children when they are grown up.

Its really saddening because an experience like that can really make a real mess out of the victim for the rest of their lives.

Originally posted by anthbes
The worst part about kids being sexually abused (if there is ONE worst part) Is that it is a very harsh cycle that will just keep repeating itself. People who were abused as children may repeat the act on children when they are grown up.

Its really saddening because an experience like that can really make a real mess out of the victim for the rest of their lives.

It also causes the victim to become violent in the future, if the victim doesn't have the ability to control his/her emotions properly.

Many victims who have not gained help for staying silent will most likely become very violent due to the anger emotion, become alcoholic to suppress the sadness emotion, and will be involved in drugs. Also the victim will have a tendency of having failed relationships due to insecurity, and the feeling of vulnerability.

reply to post by P3ACE0WAR


Exactly, so many future problems in a victims life due to some pervert wanting to get off. I couldn't even imagine having thoughts like that. I'm a pretty chill person but this is one topic that really boils my blood. If anything ever happened to my nephew I don't know what I would do. Unfortunately it is a problem that won't stop.

reply to post by P3ACE0WAR


It is important to stop these sorts of things, but we need to make sure that the real problems are presented, and not categorize another group of people by others problems. The problems Pakistan has are not seen very much in the majority of Turkey, I have been to both countries, and the majority of every other mid east nation. I am also a Muslim and places like Turkey are more secular than even America, unlike Pakistan, and we should take precautions to reduce the ignorance especially in people like FrancoUn-American.

The problems with child abuse are prevalent in every major nation, even more so in industrialized nations like the US or the UK, where the numbers are highest. It is an educational problem, and a social stress problem, people do weird and unusual things when faced with abnormal situations, and problems like rape also increase when economic issues arise.

Just for the sake of less informed people try to keep the situations distinct, and not blur the lines for people who dont know how to separate the scenarios, it will help them understand the real issues.

some years back before the 60's you could have sex in the uk at 14, before 1900 i think it was 12 or 13, not sure what age mohammeds wife was but surely this was in a different time when life was harsher and whatever age his wife was may have been an entirely normal age to marry. i am no expert on this but from a programme i watched on afghani child heroine addicts, i kind of got the impression it was young boys who are most at risk(but i admit that was a western propoganda show). and many of these kids woulkd sleep with older men just for a fix.

I'm not afraid to speak the truth but people don't wanna hear it MODS are promoting ignorance by denying the truth. Oh wait I forgot you can insult ANYTHING as long as it's not Muslim even on ATS .