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The Ankara-based International Terrorism and Transnational Crime Research Center in a report has reviewed the physiological, psychological and social problems of child soldiers across the world, including those in Turkey.
The report says child soldiers are used by paramilitary forces, terror organizations and even governmental armed forces in some countries, noting that in Turkey child soldiers are used by terror organizations, pointing to the issue a less known facet of terrorism in the country.
According to the report, the armed separatist group of Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, is the main organization in Turkey that uses children as soldiers.
The report says about 3,000 children are believed to have been used by the PKK in armed clashes since 1994, about 10 percent of whom have been girls.
In December, PKK, had reportedly kidnapped several children between ten and twelve years of age in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari.
Turkish security and intelligence forces have reportedly acknowledged that the abducted children were taken to the PKK camps.
The PKK's reported move to use children as soldiers comes as tens of its members have put down arms surrendered to the Turkish security forces recently and it seems that it faces severe difficulty in recruiting new members.
Experts say Turkey's move to increase public awareness about the PKK through nonviolent methods, mainly by implementing educational programs through cooperation between police forces and teachers in the east and southeast of the country, has successfully blocked recruitment mechanisms of the PKK.
The PKK has been for long accused of triggering protests and clashes in southeastern Turkey, mainly by encouraging children to throw stones and Molotov cocktails toward police forces.
Massive military operations against the PKK in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq that were launched in October are widely believed to be another major factor that has halted the PKK's recruitment. Dozens of the PKK members were killed in the operations.
The operations were launched after the PKK killed about 24 Turkish security forces in the southeastern province of Hakkari.
Explaining the grave impacts of armed clashes on children, the report by the Ankara-based research center has called for comprehensive measures to end the issue of child soldiers in Turkey, noting that the problem is rarely mentioned whenever the violations of the children's rights are put on the agenda in the country.
The Ankara-based International Terrorism and Transnational Crime Research Center in a report has reviewed the physiological, psychological and social problems of child soldiers across the world, including those in Turkey.
The report says child soldiers are used by paramilitary forces, terror organizations and even governmental armed forces in some countries, noting that in Turkey child soldiers are used by terror organizations, pointing to the issue a less known facet of terrorism in the country.
According to the report, the armed separatist group of Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, is the main organization in Turkey that uses children as soldiers.
The report says about 3,000 children are believed to have been used by the PKK in armed clashes since 1994, about 10 percent of whom have been girls.
In December, PKK, had reportedly kidnapped several children between ten and twelve years of age in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari.
Turkish security and intelligence forces have reportedly acknowledged that the abducted children were taken to the PKK camps.
The PKK's reported move to use children as soldiers comes as tens of its members have put down arms surrendered to the Turkish security forces recently and it seems that it faces severe difficulty in recruiting new members.
Experts say Turkey's move to increase public awareness about the PKK through nonviolent methods, mainly by implementing educational programs through cooperation between police forces and teachers in the east and southeast of the country, has successfully blocked recruitment mechanisms of the PKK.
The PKK has been for long accused of triggering protests and clashes in southeastern Turkey, mainly by encouraging children to throw stones and Molotov cocktails toward police forces.
Massive military operations against the PKK in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq that were launched in October are widely believed to be another major factor that has halted the PKK's recruitment. Dozens of the PKK members were killed in the operations.
The operations were launched after the PKK killed about 24 Turkish security forces in the southeastern province of Hakkari.
Explaining the grave impacts of armed clashes on children, the report by the Ankara-based research center has called for comprehensive measures to end the issue of child soldiers in Turkey, noting that the problem is rarely mentioned whenever the violations of the children's rights are put on the agenda in the country.
