In early December 2025, vocational education became the focus of a wider public debate in Türkiye after 16 young members of the Workers’ Party of Türkiye, TİP, were remanded in custody following a protest in Istanbul against child deaths in workplace training. Contemporary accounts commonly...
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Child Labour in Vocational Training
Deaths of Underage Trainees
