Family and Social Policies Ministry

A foster father has been arrested in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas for raping a 15-year-old girl, whom he had adopted with his wife several years before, in a new case of horrific child abuse that comes after the government recently moved to raise the sentences for such crimes.

Turkey’s authorities have launched a new plan of action against the spread of drugs such as the synthetic “bonzai.” 

Officials from the Family and Social Policies Ministry, the Health Ministry and the Interior Ministry have held a meeting in an effort to unite their forces to combat drugs, including a cheap synthetic drug called ”Bonzai,” the use of which has been rapidly spreading in recent years.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Income Inequality and Poverty report issued in June, Turkey maintains its place among the countries where income inequality is the highest.

The Family and Social Policies Ministry has called on parents to join Facebook and Twitter if their children have accounts, in a recently released book titled as “Family and Internet.”