Family and Social Policies Ministry

The Family and Social Policies Ministry has taken action on 2,158 digital posts deemed unsuitable and dangerous for children across various social media platforms, Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş has announced.

A Children's Summit has taken place at the Turkish parliament under the theme of "Children and Childhood in the World of the Future" on April 25-26 to address pressing issues and chart a path forward for the well-being of children worldwide.

Ayşegül Yıldırım Kara, Director General of Child Services at the Family and Social Policies Ministry, said that 1,874 of the 1,912 children taken under protection following the Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquakes that affected 11 provinces have been reunited with their families within a year.

In a move to foster a future generation of musicians set to resonate on both national and international stages, Türkiye's first primary and middle music schools will be opened in cooperation with the Education Ministry and Ankara University of Music and Fine Arts.

The schools will cultivate young musical talents from all over the country.

A project to support and improve women cooperatives in Turkey, conducted by three ministries and funded by the European Union, has started in 24 out of the country's entire 81 provinces, daily Milliyet reported.

Turkey has launched a mobile application called "Women Support" (KADES) for victims of violence with the joint cooperation of the Family and Social Policies Ministry and Interior Ministry.

The Family and Social Policies Ministry on April 30 lifted the rule requiring a citizen to be at least 40 years old in order to be eligible to adopt a child.

A court in the eastern province of Van has filed a criminal complaint against the Family and Social Policies Ministry over its failure to follow a case regarding a 38-day-old’s baby death after sexual abuse.

New legal regulations should be presented to protect digital games users from being “exploited and abused,” the Family and Social Policies Ministry has said, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Nov. 30.

Some 300 women this year have changed their names to avoid domestic violence, whereas this figure was 40 and 125, respectively for 2013 and 2015, daily Habertürk reported on Sept. 11.