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Monday, January 18, 2010

Anatolian 'beggar villages' send professional street kids to Istanbul

"Anatolian 'beggar villages' send professional street kids to Istanbul

The brutalized 5-year-old tissue seller Bedrettin has put street children back on Turkey's agenda. Children who either live on the street or are put to work there by their families are not being helped properly or in a lasting way, says an expert. Begging or selling small items such as tissues or bottled water on the street are the main sources of income for some villages in Anatolia"

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