reporter: benek asks if he knows about the penalty for child labor. muhsin: yes, i know about it, but we have no choice. what else can we do? reporter: the chakirbey family is no exception. one turkish labor union estimates that around two million children are forced to work on a regular basis just to survive, half a million of them in agriculture. the chakirbey's have no land of their own. they have to give 30% of their income to the landowner. even once they get home, the children's work is still not done. zehra's father appears t to hae toldld h off fororalkingng to s so openly out in the field. perhaps he's w worried b becaue was warned he might have to pay a fine. now she tells us she does go to school, but she still has tears in her eyes. sedat: these children don't spend their childhood and adolescence in school where they belong, but out in the fields working. temperatures can rise to 50 degrees celsius. doctors have diagnosed child workers with sunburn and sicknesses contracted from insects out in the field. then there are the psychological p