Turkey ranks tenth in the world with more than 100 thousand prostitute

A report issued by the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights indicated that Turkey ranks tenth in the world in the prostitution trade, explaining that according to Article 227 of the Penal Code Law No. 5237, practicing prostitution is a legal profession in Turkey.

The report monitored the presence of more than 100 thousand women working in prostitution, and some of them are forced to do this through kidnapping or financial need, in addition to the presence of 15 thousand licensed brothels with a volume of investments of 4 billion dollars every year.

And in January 2020, a case of exploitation of girls from Morocco to work in Turkey in hotels and tourism was revealed, while as soon as they arrived in Istanbul, the gangs that had lured them took all their belongings, their official papers and their phones and forced them to work in prostitution and sexual exploitation in the absence of adequate control from the Turkish police.

Noura, a Moroccan girl, one of the victims of this operation, notes that she immigrated to Turkey to work in a hotel, adding that the agent convinced her that she would take care of all travel procedures and provide her with work and housing in Istanbul in exchange for paying 10 thousand Moroccan dirhams, but as soon as she arrived in Istanbul, she was stripped of All the documents related to her and she was forced into prostitution, which had a very bad psychological impact on her.

Noura also said that she was not allowed to return to her country except when she filmed a sexually immoral video with the owner of the place so that she would not pursue them and report their whereabouts, and Noura refuses to file a lawsuit against the Moroccan mediator or the prostitution network in Turkey for fear of publishing her sex video or to take revenge on her, other girls were killed after they traveled to Turkey directly, while the mediator who carried out the travel disappeared.