Dimming the Red Lights in Turkey
Anna Louie Sussman for The New York Times
The unsavory, garbage-strewn pathway to the city's sex district.
By ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN
Published: August 19, 2011
On a Sunday afternoon earlier this summer, hundreds of Turkish men disappeared down a short alleyway just a five-minute walk from the Istanbul Modern art museum. Some flicked prayer beads around their fingers. The younger ones arrived in small groups, flashing nervous grins and smoothing their hair down with spit. They strode by a pile of garbage bags holding wadded-up tissues and cigarette butts before reaching a metal gate that separated the alley from their destination: Kadem Street, a narrow cul-de-sac and one of the country’s few remaining red-light districts.
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