Youth camps set to undergo gender segregation regulation

ISTANBUL

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State funded youth camps will now be segregated by gender, daily Hürriyet reported.The General Directorate of Youth and Sports has just written a new regulation which will oversee gender organized camps, where boys and girls are hosted at different periods of time in an effort to keep them segregated.The camps host participants between the ages of 13 and 22 and for the last 6 years the have operated in a coed manner, hosting girls and boys at the same time.The new regulation will be applied to camps on June 11.