Some 22,000 children missing in Turkey

[Ocean]

http://en.trend.az/news/society/2107887.html

Some 22,000 children considered missing in Turkey

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 14/ Trend A. Taghiyeva /

According to the Turkish statistics data, some 27,000 children were missing in the country from 2008 to 2011, CNN Turk TV channel said today. Some 16,200 of this number are girls.

According to the statistics, only 5700 children were found.

Turkish Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin has refuted the data obtained from the Statistics Institute of the country, calling them inaccurate. He said that only 1000 children are considered missing in the country.

Inaccuracy in this issue occurred because not all the found children were officially registered, the minister said.

 

[Gwenllian]

Well, we know that a lot of children go missing every day, never to return. I can't even fathom the numbers. And I am trying to wrap my head around it. The fact that they just disappear and the immense suffering they have to go through.

Interesting that this statistics institute has come to such a high number, in any case much higher than the interior minister claims. The minister is doing damage control, OSIT.

Thanks for posting this, Ocean. Most adults are completely unaware of the suffering that kids have to endure IMO.

 

[Voyageur]

Had always known there were very high numbers, yet these numbers are sick.

_http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?PageId=2816

How many missing children are there?

The problem of missing children is complex and multifaceted. Children may become missing due to abduction by nonfamily members or abduction by family members. Children may be missing as a result of running away from home. Children may also be missing involuntarily for reasons other than abduction, due to becoming lost, injured or otherwise missing to their parents or guardians. The best national estimates for the number of missing children are found in the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-2), released in October 2002. According to NISMART-2, an estimated

Nearly 800,000 children younger than 18 are missing each year, or an average of 2,185 children reported missing each day.
More than 200,000 children were were abducted by family members.
More than 58,000 children were abducted by nonfamily members.
115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. These crimes involve someone the child does not know or a slight acquaintance who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.

Those Turkish numbers, if factored from the ones above, if accurate, may be exactly as stated. The ones above, if for the USA, then reflect the following:

There was an article on SotT here; it does not work anymore, that apparently describes the US numbers alone as being "797,500 for one year period", sourced from this thread.

 

[Vulcan59]

Also note the discussion on missing children here. :)