Two former prostitutes are running for the Turkish parliament with the aim of raising awareness of the treatment of sex workers there. It might surprise you to know that prostitution is, it seems, legal, and there are 3,000 registered prostitutes. But while that list is supposed to be secret, it is clear that the stigma follows women, and even their daughters…
…her daughter’s hopes of becoming a police officer collapsed when her mother’s record was revealed in a background investigation.
“I haven’t seen her for two years and I don’t know where she is,” Ermez says. “All I know is that she refers to me as ‘that woman’ and vows to kill me if she meets me.”
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