In a ground-breaking speech in parliament earlier this month, Mr Erdogan provoked tears when he spoke of the common pain of Turkish and Kurdish mothers who had lost sons in the conflict.

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Given that the couple are already subject to life through the lens, this is a poignant take on lost love by one of the art world's favorite sons.

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They lost two young sons during the course of this tragedy.

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The impact of English football's darkest day lives on in the tributes still paid by Liverpool to its lost sons and daughters, husbands and fathers.

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Many farm jobs were lost, but mostly it was the sons and daughters of farmers moving to the towns and cities to take factory and other jobs.

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Vann Nath does not feel vengeance in his heart, even though he lost two young sons to starvation during the Pol Pot years.

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In an effort to learn how to better handle her emotions, Shania visits author and psychiatrist Dr. Gordon Livingston, who lost two sons, one to suicide and the other to leukemia.

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It is also a quasi-Freudian biblio-adventure, looping and twisting through the streets of post-war Barcelona and in among the pages of books, in search of lost fathers and sons, mothers and daughters.

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