Brothels in Turkey

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The rates are usually very cheap in Turkey´s Red-light districts. Only about 30-40 Turkish Liras (15-20 us dollars)  for 15 minutes of sex. Some girls are pretty looking and some are below average. Most cities in Turkey have a red light districts with brothels.

 

Foreigners need to pay double in most red light districts (70-80 liras) (35-40 us dollars)

 

You can see the locations of brothels and Red Light Districts of Turkey from here: Red-light Districts in Turkey

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I do not think it is fair that foreigners have to pay double. Not all foreigners make more than Turkish people. Example eastern european are more poor than Turkish. Also Turkish people are very hairy, so isnt it more fun for girl to be with some one less hairy?

[Guest laufhaus Istanbul]

Turkey Cracks Down on Legal Brothels

By SUSANNE GÜSTEN

Published: January 23, 2013 Source: nytimes.com

 

ISTANBUL — On a cold and wet morning here, half a dozen men were lined up at the metal gate that blocks off an alley called Giraffe Lane in the Beyoglu district, their collars turned up against the rain and their hands shoved into their pockets.

 

Having shown their identification to the police officers guarding the gate, they handed over mobile phones, key rings and cigarette lighters to a custodian, shuffled through a metal detector, and sauntered off to take their pick of the brothels that line the lane.

 

Every day, from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., men make their way in a steady trickle down the steep back alleys below the Galata Tower to disappear behind the gate guarding Giraffe Lane, a cul-de-sac that is Turkey’s oldest legal and licensed red light district.

 

Founded over a century ago in Ottoman times, the brothel district still serves over 5,000 men a day, even though its heyday is clearly over, with most of its decrepit apartment buildings now empty.

 

But early this month, the women working inside poured out to make a stand for their profession. With scarves, shawls and sunglasses concealing their faces, dozens of sex workers assembled on the cobblestones outside Giraffe Lane, brandishing handwritten placards and accusing the authorities of trying to force them out of business.

 

“Leave the Brothels Alone” and “Hands Off My Daily Bread,” the placards read.

 

The protest came after a police raid earlier that day in which several brothels were closed down in what the women said was a sting operation aimed at forcing them out of Giraffe Lane.

 

“Two undercover policemen claimed that women had called out to them, but that is just a trumped-up pretext,” said one of the protesters, all of whom declined to be named.

 

A spokeswoman for the provincial governorate of Istanbul, which is in charge of licensing brothels in Istanbul, said by telephone that she was not aware of any policy to close down brothels or otherwise impede legal prostitution.

 

A spokesman for the Istanbul Police Department would not comment on the recent raid on Giraffe Lane but added that he was not aware of a policy singling out brothels for closing.

 

Prostitution is legal in Turkey in licensed brothels, but soliciting and procuring are not. Four brothels were sealed for a three-month period by the police as a result of the charge, and two were permanently closed as repeat offenders.

 

“For the past year, the authorities have been closing down these establishments arbitrarily and in violation of existing rules and regulations,” the protesting sex workers said in a declaration read out at the rally.

 

The trend is not limited to Istanbul. Ankara had most of the brothels in the Bentderesi red light district, which was demolished last summer after the municipality won a series of court cases. In Antalya, a brothel compound was closed last summer after a mosque was built next to it, because brothels are prohibited from being housed next to schools or places of worship.

 

Ankara and Istanbul are governed by the Justice and Development Party, while Antalya is governed by the People’s Republican Party.

 

“They do not understand that closing licensed brothels will not stamp out prostitution, it will merely drive it onto the street and underground, endangering the lives of sex workers and public health,” said Sevval Kilic, co-founder of Women’s Gate, an organization dedicated to helping sex workers.

 

Under Turkish law, sex workers must be vetted and licensed by the provincial authorities and submit to regular hygiene checkups. Licensed brothels, which number just over 50 nationwide, are guarded and supervised by the police. It is this surveillance that makes legal brothels attractive to customers and sex workers, safeguarding them from disease and violence, said Ms. Kilic, who is a former sex worker.

 

This endorsement is shared by experts from the field of sexology.

 

“From a scientific point of view, closing those houses down is a very bad idea,” said Akif Poroy, a Turkish specialist on sexual medicine.

 

He said the moves would lead to a rise in sexually transmitted diseases and violence against women. The sex workers at the protest rally shared his misgivings.

 

“There are only 11 houses left open here now,” one of the women said. “There is not enough room for all these girls. We are being forced into the streets to support our children.”

 

The police raid in Istanbul left about 60 women temporarily out of work and 30 permanently unemployed. Many of them would be left with no choice but to join the ranks of unlicensed and illegal prostitutes working the streets, estimated by Ms. Kilic to number 100,000. An independent study financed by the European Union in 2007 pegged that figure at 85,000, not counting the substantial number of foreign women plying the trade in Turkey.

 

Licensed sex workers in Turkey, whose ranks number about 3,500, have virtually no chance of being employed outside their profession, as they are registered with the police and their licenses are issued in place of regular identity cards. Still, an estimated 40,000 women have applications for licenses pending, according to Women’s Gate, the sex workers’ rights group.

 

“Virtually none have been granted since 2002,” the year the Justice and Development Party began governing, Ms. Kilic said.

 

Nowhere is the decline of the industry more manifest than on Giraffe Lane, where locked doors and broken windows of dozens of vacant houses serve as reminders of more boisterous times.

 

Originally founded to serve the European inhabitants of Pera, as Beyoglu was called in Ottoman times, and still sandwiched between two synagogues and an Armenian church, the district saw its glory days in the 1990s, when an Armenian madam named Matild Manukyan ran three dozen brothels there and topped the list of taxpayers in Turkey for five years.

 

Ms. Manukyan was presented with official plaques and certificates honoring her contribution. That could not happen today, said Mr. Poroy, the sexologist. “It has absolutely become more difficult,” he said, to speak openly about sexuality and about the cultural and political climate of the past decade.

 

To Ms. Kilic, that is precisely where the problem lies. If only there were an open debate about prostitution, the benefits of the system could be argued, she said. “But the authorities are sidestepping the issue, preferring to quietly close the brothels on pretexts,” she said.

[Guest Red Light District Turkey]

Here´s some info for sex tourists who are planning a sex trip to Turkey. I must warn you that prostitutes in Turkey´s brothels are mostly very ugly, if you manage to find average looking whore, there will be a long line up to her. Remember this! You can not find pretty hookers in Turkey´s brothels. It is impossible! Never pay more than 100TL for sex in Turkey´s brothel or you are getting ripped of. Locals always pay 35TL for the house and then 20TL tip for the girl. So you should do fine even if you pay 35TL for the house and 35TL for the girl. This is 70TL and it equals to US$35. Cheap!

 

Istanbul brothel: is located in Karaköy.

 

Ankara brothel in: alper has the nation close to ankara castle.

 

Eskişehir brothel: they move out of the city Borsa stop was karapınar or kanlipin is across the dark in over ankara way. minibus going to the door.

 

Kastamonu brothel Kastamonu go with pine locality taxi

 

Izmir brothel in: Famous Izmir stigma general house Izmir stigma (yenişehir) in the district is now back streets of available train station. It is easy to transport in the city is not any kind of decent so close that the route passes through regions vehicle that is also dangerous. Caution must be said that inside is crowded and very nice

 

Edirne brothel: very few writers go to ride very close to taxi to the center. But again, let me describe the Kırkpınar Sarayönü place there under the bridge where the wrestling giderken.i the river. First there is a parallel street to the river near the bridge at the beginning of the street there is a mosque. You gore brothel at 200 meters later.

 

Kesan brothel: another brothel, which is still open.

 

Çorlu brothel: Take the shield Tekirdag car from the bus station Çorludan out after 2 km, will land there of oil mills say the driver is already behind the brothel factory.

 

Nazilli brothel: Down Naziili moves from No. 6 You can go to the Local path to exceed 300 mt tickle tickle you walk across a buffet just around the corner when the red building on the left. It's called the path in front of the path of love within the industry. Now formerly GI GI was fantastic. sümer factory when the current sümer right across campus more how little farther up. Industry halısaha pool has its next nazilli sports facilities. You will also find it anymore. visit manages 25 wives, but not great.

 

Yozgat brothel: Still open another brothel brothel

 

Manisa: You are in the final full stop number 4 from the center to complete your ride against. The old side road or Manisa, Izmir at the entrance of the bus home from work last stop there. Six ways coast of the slaughterhouse near Manisa slightly in front of the prison entrance. I officially give the exact address. Alternate directions: Exit towards other cities in the turgutu by Manisa up by the military and petrol are respectively an integrated livestock slaughterhouse meat passes right post. Signage is number 1 in its rate so far.  Aydın brothel: the Asthma town called b, asthma by minibus to the bus station, download assistant to hint to you in front. already last stop. I know that if one firm Kerann.

 

Aydin asthma care, where you in a thousand to asthma minibus shows to whom.

 

Corum brothel Samsun'll leave the asphalt, after going 4 miles turning right b Straps future mosque, past the green two-story building. çorum wholesale carpet to get a taxi near the back of ankara asphalt.

 

Afyon brothel: Return to the street from the train station, continue to the left down the street, in the future among the most after the meadow , you will see a pink house there is already the author's door. as usually happens in front. Opium station as one building has already. 500 meters ahead, turn left over when tcddy way to the train station.

 

Konya brothel: There are no akşehird in the center. You go to the station. Exit the station on the road to the center of Konya, there 's usually the streets of industries such as automotive mechanic, complete it together. Central to the train or bus is going. Station or bus station are you arkaür cabbies. If you say you take a taxi, call the walk towards the road konya from the station behind a path gelicek auto mechanic .. brothel right there .. may be in Konya Ereğli'sinin

 

Çankırı brothel: Çankırıy arriving to the input, ie, before the province signs about 3 kilometers just before the asphalt near the 3-storey pink building.

 

Balikesir brothel: the main street leading to the clock tower in the center. There's a hill out a way. He shows signs of social recreational facilities, continue up the hill that is 300 meters, close to a military hospital. Dinkçiler neighborhood geçiyordu. he is now closed but no brothel, is reopening. Balıkesir on the road 12 miles edremit heavy entertainment center

 

Nigde brothel: Environmental path that occurs when significant sculpture, 200-300 meters after returning to the right path pale bi building. They kept looking out the window from his wife to go already, you'll know immediately.

 

Denizli brothel: Organized industrial output, inside a little from the main road. organized industry filled the bin's, get off at the last stop, staying just behind the street. I forgot district of Denizli Denizli but org. industry is going to have expired. The last stop minibuses depart from the rear of the bus station.

 

Antalya brothel: reaching the bridge before we have about 700-800 meters, is what proportion of bi hardware. staying right at the back if you find there. driver are already helping many on that side, or women in full. So feel free to question. Antalya varsak Take the bus or minübü milkman. Trick driver to "brother varsak 1 km until reaching the bridge cry trade since he had the place to be selling construction materials I was there I INEC "If you say, cry trade brothel We went with close high school friend of 50 meters. I do not ask how they came to work we went. It was a guess about 8 years. The environment is left on my mind a little bit wonky joint .. It was also found in the brothel. Pickpockets around, finds receive land parayı'cı were throwing javelin blah

 

Usak brothel: Uşakta't to a general household, female Number 2 - 3 I think it will not take more turns off. Known in the city because it does not give you the opportunity to brothel houses. How do you say go hard but nevertheless I will try to describe the recipe. Safety-up of the two streets down and after a while a lot steeper uphill path, if regularly followed, passing over of municipal TV reflective, 5 km. After reaching a brothel.

 

Kars brothel: I'm not sure, but if they were going to other districts and buildings against the housing administration.

 

Erzurum brothel Star out of the city, Paladoken way, reaching almost to the foothills. He goes by the name of the place located in the throat. Palandöken filled the position for sore throat does not go to school or ride a taxi if they take you in.

 

Adana brothel Adana-Barkal. target myrtle way past the bus station behind the drug store. If you ride the Barkal-sosyalev are filled you in the door of a brothel.

 

Van brothel: Closed.

 

Adiyaman brothel: opposite the bus station.

 

Diyarbakır brothel: Exit the road between Mardin cities. Diyarbakir-Mardin road watermelon you find the passes progress of land in the middle of the enclosed pink building watermelon bi district, where b is like the town, past a place, municipal services building does what he writes, turn giving, get inside 1 mile ahead. closed brothels Amasya brothel, Bursa brothel in Kütahya brothel, brothels of Isparta, Banda brothel, brothels Sakarya, Kocaeli brothel, Kırşehird a brothel.