Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Independent Online Edition > Europe-Customers help stamp out Turkey's sex slaves

"Customers help stamp out Turkey's sex slaves
By Meriel Beattie in Ankara
Published: 28 December 2005

An unlikely hero has emerged in Turkey to rescue victims of forced prostitution: the brothel customer.

While the country's security forces are hardly renowned for their attention to human rights or sympathetic treatment of women, they have been chalking up impressive successes in finding and freeing trafficked women from brothels."

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