This report quantifies and provides a clear picture of violence on young children in Turkey, which include physical damage and injuries, disorders in mental health, loss of self-confidence, loss of skills to adapt to the social environment, and possibility of inflicting violence on others in future. It uses economic data on these consequences to construct a framework to estimate the economic costs of violence against young children in Turkey. The model finds that in 2011, with an estimated prevalence rate of 34%, the total cost of violence against young children in Turkey is calculated to be between 13.1 billion and 23.7 billion Euros in 2012 values. This corresponds to the cost of medical equipment for more than 3090 hospitals.
