The Association for promoting, universalizing, implementing and monitoring the implementation of the rights of the child, The Agenda is Children (Gündem Çocuk) has published its annual Children's Right to Live in Turkey report. The report underlined that 815 children died in Turkey of preventable causes or due to the government's neglect. According to the report:

*2 children died due to mine or arm explosion

*3 children died in gunfight

*19 children massacred in Roboski

*3 children died due to rights violations in social incidents, including Fýrat Ýzgin who burnt himself to draw attention to the Kurdish issue

*20 children died due to individual arming

*12 children committed suicide

*24 children died due to domestic violence

*9 children died due to peer violence

*15 children died in health care

*5 children died in education institutions

*177 children died in car accidents

*32 children died of gas and smoke poisoning

*325 children died in the earthquake in Van.

Gündem Çocuk Executive Board Member Emrah Kýrýmsoy remarked that it is the government's responsibility not to violate children's right to live and said: "Since the government is not fulfilling this responsibility, children are dying, extrajudicially killed, even slain in social incidents, gunfights or due to mine and arm explosions."