Why, Turkish Cypriots often ask, were outside powers so loth to speak up when they were being bullied into ethnic enclaves by the Greek-Cypriot majority in the 1960s?

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It reacts badly when it thinks it being bullied.

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And when a child does end up being bullied, this same group of people advises that the victims should just fight back.

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When she found out her son was being bullied, she climbed over the fence into his camp and smuggled him out.

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"When I think about young kids in America who are being bullied and tortured, who are taking their own lives because they feel alone and judged, outcast and misunderstood, I want to sit down and cry rivers of tears, " she said.

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"When I think about young kids in America who are being bullied and tortured, who are taking their own lives because they feel alone and judged, outcast and misunderstood, I want to sit down and cry a river of tears, " Madonna said.

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When a parent or a teacher tells a child who is being bullied to stop tattling and fight back, it can make the situation worse.

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He praised Murphy for sacrificing his life to save his team in Afghanistan, but he said what really makes Murphy his choice was that when Murphy was in 8th grade, he defended a special needs student who was being bullied.

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