Summary
Turkey’s soaring inflation, which reached 47% in November, is forcing millions of children into poverty, with many dropping out of school to support their families.
About 7 million Turkish children, or one-third of the population under 18, live in poverty, with families like the Sahins in Istanbul relying on children to scavenge or sell goods to make ends meet.
Rising living costs and inadequate welfare support have deepened child labor and deprivation, creating a “lost generation” trapped in cycles of poverty.
Activists warn of lifelong disadvantages without systemic intervention.
Why can’t a country (or city, or anythung) choose what others call them?
We call it Timor Leste instead of East Timor. We call it Cote d’Ivoire instead of Ivory Coast. We call it Kyiv instead of Kiev. We call it Russia instead of USSR. All of these are names chosen within the last 50 years or so.
A lot of the “traditional” names are just historical holdovers from a very long time ago. If we encountered them for the first time today, we probably would use their chosen name. If tomorrow they said they wanted to be referred to as Deutschland or Nippon, we’d probably accept that and start calling them by those names.
When that country is ruled by a dictator? Because fuck him.