Who works in Urfa?

Some delayed comments on Urfa: In Sanliurfa, besides holy fish and weird demonstrations, we saw some other things of interest. Walking the streets and the bazaar it was impossible not to notice all the kids and young people working. They are not only selling chewing gum and napkins on the street as they are everywhere east of Slovenia, here they seem more systematically put to labor. East of Turkey sure is Asia. We asked a local guy about the laws and he claimed there is no law about compulsory elementary school in Turkey – something that sounds very strange indeed. But even if school is compulsory and child labor is forbidden, it seems these things are not enforced in this very Kurdish part of the country.