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.
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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.