Ouch! Boys Lose Too Much in Circumcision Slip
`

#  Ouch! Boys Lose Too Much in Circumcision Slip  

By: ANONYMOUS (mail will go to the Eunuch Archive)
([eunuch@bmeworld.com](http://web.archive.org/web/20090309111612/mailto:eunuch@bmeworld.com))  
  
Post [
feedback](http://web.archive.org/web/20090309111612/http://bmeworld.com/eunuch/feedback.htm)
for this author or  
review this story for Archive readers.  
  
[MINOR] Other:  
  
  

    
    
    Health workers carrying out a mass circumcision on more than 200 
    children in western Turkey cut off more than they should have when 
    they got to the last two on Friday.
    

* * *

`

[A -
H](http://web.archive.org/web/20090309111612/http://bmeworld.com/eunuch/alpha1.html)
[I -
P](http://web.archive.org/web/20090309111612/http://bmeworld.com/eunuch/alpha2.html)
[Q -
Z](http://web.archive.org/web/20090309111612/http://bmeworld.com/eunuch/alpha3.html)
[Newest
Files](http://web.archive.org/web/20090309111612/http://bmeworld.com/eunuch/newfiles.html)

* * *
    
    
    Ouch! Boys Lose Too Much in Circumcision Slip
    
    
    
                                                   Updated 3:22 PM ET 
    June 9, 2000
    
      ANKARA (Reuters) - Health workers carrying out a mass circumcision 
    on more than 200 children in western Turkey cut off more than they 
    should have when they got to the last two on Friday.
    
      "Whether it was because of their anatomy or through carelessness, 
    too much was cut off,"
      Anatolian news agency quoted Manisa health service chief Ismet 
    Nardal as saying.
    
      Doctors in the hospital where the two-day circumcision marathon 
    was carried out
      immediately operated on the pair to try to rectify the error.
    
      "The children's stitched organs have held, the operation was 
    successful," Nardal said.
      "They appear to be alright, but it will only become apparent later 
    if they have lost their
      sexual function."
    
      Young boys are circumcised in overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey before 
    they reach puberty,
      according to Islamic tradition. 
    

  
[Return To The Eunuch
Archive](http://web.archive.org/web/20090309111612/http://www.bmeworld.com/eunuch/index2.htm)