Abstract

Child labour is one of the many major problems among children in Turkey, and waste picking is one of the most recent and worst forms of child labour. It is a widespread form of working on the streets in Turkey’s big cities, and is performed in particular by children in Diyarbakır, where 30 children were interviewed in detail during this qualitative research. Consequently, the opinions and experiences of children were to the greatest possible extent included in the study, from the perspective of the following themes: socio-demographic characteristics, causes of work, relations with the school, relations with family and relatives, and relations with other people.

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