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This is the saddest thing.

Does anyone have any information on homeless people in Turkey? Even though I've travelled a lot I have never seen any in such poor shape. It's heartbreaking.

pity thats one of the most important social wound of our country,and capitalist economic order creating its own freak society model a bit more day by day by its all wildness,and thats really sad there r planty victims like this unlucky ones of wild capital race...

Think of the neglected ones, who have no home in Haiti, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Africa, a world wide tragedy, esp. in third World countries. Read this: http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/02/22/colomb10202.htm

Well I have been in the USA and I have seen many homeless people before, because sadly there are people in that unfortunate situation in every country (I am yet to see an exception).
This video, however, seems really harsh and the kid really has nothing. I'm just saying it made a great impression on me. At least in many other places I have travelled homeless people still have some sort of (although obcviously very low) living standard, but this looks like something taken out of the poorest third world country.
Time is ripe for turkish politicians to do take steps towards generating more jobs. Something clearly needs to be done about this. Perhaps there are not many homeless people in Turkey, I don't know, but this guys conditions appear to be much more severe than those of the usual (perhaps by choice) homeless people begging on the street corner.
Which options are there for someone like this in Turkey?

That clip was painfully sad, even though I didn't understand much of what was being said. Such is the plight of many poverty stricken children/people around the world... With so much wealth in the world, how can there still be so much poverty?

OK OK OK!!! There are exceptions maybe.... but help is there if people really need it. You never never see starving people - not really .

Even tramp alcoholics draw their benefit money...and buy more alcohol with it

(Edit: My post sounds more harsh than it actually is! All I am saying is that you never hear of starving homeless people in the UK. They are homeless for many complex reasons but all of those reasons are just as horrible.)

Yes that's what I meant Aenigma.

For all I know the guy in the video could be dead already and nobody would give a damn.

One of the hardest things I face in Turkey is that when I see a homeless person begging for money, I want to give some. But there are so many conmen (PC language con-persons) here.

On the news last summer (I have tried to find this on youtube but I couldn't) there was a amputee man sitting on the central reservation of a main four lane street in Istanbul begging for money. The beggar soon realised that someone was filming him from a balcony on his video camera. The beggar got angry and starting shouting at the man taking the video. After a few moments the beggar disconnected his bent so-called amputated limb from out of his trouser and walked away on two very normal legs.

There are real genuine desperate people here in much need of help, but there are a huge number of cheaters too. How do you tell the difference.

The man was obviouly not a genuine beggar.

My bet is that he was a policeman, watching drug dealers.

Why do people film and destroy the cover of policemen on duty?

They should film the drug dealers, instead...much more fun there !

I always carried around small packages of sweets, such as Kent or Bonjelly (?? cant remember). Since I heard that they cheat and fake a lot, I decided to only give candy to the kids. If you give money, and the parents turn out to be a cheat, the kids will be begging all day and the parents receive all the goods.

Sometimes, I do buy tissues or cakmak, but on the rare occassion I feel someone is genuine.

But I never give money to people who just beg and not try to sell something.

You're just saying that because you can condemn drug dealers acc. to your nationalist manifesto but there's no way to explain away this situation with excuses of him not being a real turk etc.

Beware...What the drug dealers will shoot back, will not be a film !

and what about those elderly beggers infront of mosques in Turkia?

Not to worry !

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I know you don't

Meet your neighbourly drug runner. Hayes...He is a good American. I bet he would have no problem getting a visa to Britain...

For good old time's sake....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHjLMnGkedU&feature=related

Reality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FsAzQal9c

reality is, sometimes parents do send their kids to do what they do. and take their money.
one of the novels on this Hugo - L'homme qui rit.
give them flowers sometimes and they smile.
bath them and they are happier.
let them use binoculars and they will think it is... magic.
WORKING IN HELPING THIS PEOPLE IS MAGIC.

and they all our kids and i think each one of us has some responsibilites about em,if we don't be aware of that even..