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Two women wounded, one child killed in two separate cases of violence against women in Turkey

Two men in two separate cases in Turkey opened fire on their former partners on Sept. 26, leading to the death of a six year-old girl in the western province of Balıkesir and the amputation of a woman's leg in the southern province of Gaziantep.

Tragedies of children in Turkish cinema revisited

Director Ömer Can’s debut ‘Toprağa uzanan eller’ (King of the cotton) tells the harrowing issue of child labor with an elegant story told through the eyes of children, giving a breath of fresh air to a category of films long-cherished in Turkish cinema It’s hard not to feel a sense of déjà vu that you are being taken to the Turkish cinema of the 1950s upon reading the press r