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Friday, February 09, 2007

Trabzon's growing culture of violence - Turkish Daily News Feb 09, 2007

"Trabzon's growing culture of violence
Friday, February 9, 2007

CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
ISTANBUL - The Associated Press

First the youths fantasized about killing. Then they carried out the crimes, emboldened by their violent imaginations.

Adem Solak, a therapist who has worked with young men imprisoned for murder in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, says the sequence is a recurring theme among those he has interviewed. Now a pair of widely publicized killings in the past year has focused attention on Trabzon's culture of violence and what some have called Turkey's �lost youth.� "

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