Summary: |
This contribution offers a children’s rights approach to the situation in Turkish Kurdistan. The Kurdish conflict has been causing, and still causes, a setback of the situation of minors, as well as gross violations of universal children’s rights. When we take a closer look on the consequences of the Kurdish conflict for children, we are confronted with two important questions. First, we have to reflect upon the role of the European Union in implementing children’s rights in the applicant countries. Secondly, we are being confronted, not for the first time, with the seeming impossibility to make children’s rights count for all children. These problems will be addressed within the frame of the locally observed situation. |