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Viewing cable 06ANKARA183, TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, December 16-
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 08 ANKARA 000183
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR G/TIP, G, INL, DRL, EUR/PGI, EUR/SE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF TU TIP IN TURKEY
SUBJECT: TIP IN TURKEY: TURKISH MEDIA ATTENTION, December 16-
31, 2005
¶1. In response to G/TIP inquiries, national and
international media sources published the following news
articles about TIP in Turkey. Text of articles
originally published in Turkish is provided through
unofficial Embassy translation.
¶2. Published by the Turkish Daily News on Friday, December
16, 2005:
TITLE: Aksu in Athens for talks on human trafficking,
crime
BEGIN TEXT: Greek President Karolos Papoulias
yesterday received Turkish Interior Minister Abdulkadir
Aksu along with Iranian and Pakistani ministers who
were in Athens for a meeting on immigration and human
trafficking, the Anatolia news agency said.
The visiting ministers reportedly briefed Papoulias
about the meeting during which ways of fighting illegal
immigration, human trafficking, drugs and organized
crime were discussed.
Technical delegations were said to be working on a
concluding statement to be signed at the end of the
meeting today. The meeting on immigration and human
trafficking was first scheduled between October 10 and
11, but was delayed due to the devastating earthquake
that hit Pakistan.
Having wrapped up his bilateral talks with the Greek
and visiting ministers, Aksu is expected to depart for
Turkey this evening. END TEXT.
¶3. Published by the Turkish Daily News on Friday, December
16:
TITLE: 83 arrested in human trafficking ring
BEGIN TEXT: European police detained 83 alleged
members of a human trafficking ring operating between
Iraq and Britain, the European Union's body of
prosecutors and magistrates, Eurojust, said yesterday.
The gang is said to have transported an unknown number
of people from Iraq through Turkey, Greece, Italy,
France and then across the North Sea to Britain. In
the operation carried out simultaneously on Wednesday,
49 people were held in France, followed by 21 in Italy,
7 in Britain, 3 in Turkey and 2 in Greece, Eurojust
said in a statement. Eurojust hosted talks in October
to coordinate the raids.
"It is one of the most important, if not the most
important operations dismantling clandestine migration
networks in France," Paris Prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin
told a news conference in the French capital. The
operation followed a three-year investigation, Italian
police said. END TEXT.
¶4. Published by Hurriyet on Friday, December 16:
TITLE: Transvestite Gang Caught Selling 12-year-old
BEGIN TEXT: One and a half months ago, M.B. reported
to the police in Turgutlu, Manisa that her 12-year-old
daughter was missing. It was determined that C.B. went
to Izmir with a girlfriend and was raped by U.A. (19)
in Hatay. It was also determined that C.B. was forced
into prostitution by transvestites C.D. (27) and O.D.
(21). Raids were carried out on two houses and U.A.,
C.D. and O.D. were captured. O.A., a university
student who gave a ride to C.B., was also detained.
C.B. was turned over to her family. U.A. and the two
transvestites were arrested for forcefully keeping an
underage girl, raping her and forcing her into
prostitution. O.A. was set free by the prosecutor.
END TEXT.
¶5. Published by Hurriyet on Friday, December 16:
TITLE: 20 arrested for having relations with a little
girl
BEGIN TEXT: The 12 people arrested on charges of
engaging in sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old F.A.
were arrested have been joined by an Akyakali poet,
O.O., and others, bringing the number arrested to 20.
Most of them are fathers and sons. The first 12 were
taken to the Jandarma for their testimony and the judge
put them under arrest. F.A. has a 1.5-year-old baby,
fathered by her step-father who raped her two years
ago. F.A. was taken under the protection of the Mugla
Orphanage. END TEXT.
¶6. Published by Yeni Safak on Friday, December 16:
TITLE: UNICEF: Poor children are slaves of rich
countries
BEGIN TEXT: According to UNICEF, which states that 50
million children in developing countries are "unseen,"
each year 1.8 million children around the world are
used in the sex industry and 5.7 million children are
sold as slaves.
UNICEF noted that more than half of the children in
developing countries are not registered after they are
born. In its annual report entitled, "Status of World
Children in 2006: Excluded and Unseen," UNICEF
concluded that in most of the developing world, more
than half of the children are not registered after
birth and, thus, governments are not aware of the
problems of these children. Also, trafficking of
children cannot be prevented. According to UNICEF,
each year approximately 1.8 million children are
kidnapped for various reasons. In order to prevent
maltreatment of children, one has to achieve targets in
the fight against extreme poverty.
UNICEF stated that in all countries and societies
children are being affected by exclusion. The primary
reason is poverty, bad handling of public affairs,
armed struggle and AIDS/HIV.
UNICEF noted that there were many factors that
contributed to the increase in children being "unseen."
It listed these factors as: there are no official IDs,
children who do not have families are not protected
enough by the state, exploitation and the expectation
of young children to take an adult role.
Exploited children disappear in an illegal environment
without a trace. They generally end up serving as
prostitutes, in pornography, armed conflicts or other
illegal activities.
In the report on the "unseen" children, the following
was mentioned: Children who are not registered at
birth are not included in official statistics and not
recognized as a member of society. Children without an
ID are sometimes excluded from educational, health and
social security services. They cannot be protected
from dangerous conditions since they are not treated as
children. In developing countries, except China, 55
percent of all births are unregistered.
UNICEF reported that millions of children are suffering
in front of the eyes of the world, but, paradoxically,
away from their sight. They are ignored and people
remain indifferent to their needs. In the report it
was stated that street children are prone to all types
of exploitation and maltreatment. According to
estimates, there are more than one million children
around the world who are in detention facilities.
Their health, education and protection are not
guarantee.
UNICEF President Ann Veneman noted that other than AIDS
orphans, the number of children who are forced into
marriage at a very early age was high. She noted that
the number of children who end up on the streets and
who disappear was very high. Veneman noted that a lot
of children were used in the sex industry and said,
"Cheap plane tickets and internet open easy paths for
these children to become a sex slave in developed
nations." END TEXT.
¶7. Reported by Tercuman on Saturday, December 24:
TITLE: Women forced into prostitution rescued
BEGIN TEXT: The Istanbul Security Directorate,
Foreigner Division, reported that 12 foreign women had
been brought to Istanbul, passports taken and forced
into prostitution. Twelve women were rescued in a raid
in the Aksaray district. One woman was arrested and
sent to prison awaiting trial. In another raid, the
team arrested 20 women from Ukraine, Moldova and The
Kyrgyz Republic. Ukrainian S.L. was found to be
carrying HIV. END TEXT.
¶8. Reported by Anadolu Agency on Sunday, December 25 and
TurkishPress.com on Monday, December 26:
TITLE: Turkish Police Chief Aydiner in China
BEGIN TEXT: Turkish Police Chief Gokhan Aydiner has
arrived in Beijing upon an invitation from the Chinese
Public Security Ministry.
"We have excellent ties with the Chinese public
security authorities. Based on a mutual agreement, a
delegation from China visits Turkey one year and a
delegation from Turkey visits China the next year,"
said Aydiner.
"The distance between us no longer is relevant. Crimes
have become global and not merely local or regional.
Turkey needs to cooperate with all countries in the
fight against illegal drugs, arms and human
trafficking," noted Aydiner.
Aydiner will return to Turkey on January 1st, 2006.
END TEXT.
¶9. Reported by Hurriyet in their Sunday supplement on
Sunday, December 25:
BEGIN TEXT: Professors Esin Kuntay and Guliz Erginsoy
studied girls who are younger than 18 and who are used
as sex workers in Istanbul. They wrote the book,
"Girls Who are Commercial Sex Workers."
Their research lasted for one year and they visited
police stations, bars and discos in the Beyoglu
district of Istanbul, and the lobby a five-star hotel.
They predicted that there is around 300-400 such girls
and they managed to interview 80 of them.
Some characteristics of these girls are:
-- They hate big families and refer to their fathers as
"psychopath/alcoholic," and their mothers as "witch."
They were emotionally, physically and sexually
exploited by their families.
-- Most of them were from immigrant families who came
to Istanbul from elsewhere.
-- Limited means, lack of interest and education levels
dragged these girls to the streets. Another trigger
was whether their fathers were drug addicts or
alcoholics. Their fathers were generally fishermen,
cab drivers, butchers, marble masters and they beat
their wives.
-- Once a girl leaves home, she lives on the streets
where they are found by either young or older people
working in the prostitution sector. They are taken
under their protection.
-- One girl said, "I wanted to be free. So I fled from
home, but there is no freedom in the streets either.
On the contrary, you are a slave. You may not want to
work at least one day a week, but cannot do so. You
need to eat and pay the hotel bill. So you have to go
back to the disco. You cannot drink a cup of coffee
without paying the price. You are a slave. I want to
fight and get rid of this situation, but I wonder what
my chances are?"
-- Most of the interviewed girls were 17 years old.
One-fifth of them have been working as prostitutes for
five years and two-fifths for one year.
-- They look like ordinary girls.
-- They say that they feel as though they are 60 or 70
years old. They enjoy shopping and having fast food in
their spare time.
-- They are ashamed of the job they do, and most of
them cut their wrists.
-- When they earn enough money, they hope to open a
cosmetics shop, get married and have children and buy
their mothers a fully automatic washing machine.
-- Most of them are primary school graduates or they
did not go to school at all. In the past they were
involved in the textile business, worked at a
hairdresser or as a salesperson.
-- Around 30 percent were subject to beating and other
types of exploitation, including emotional, physical
and sexual.
-- They were raised in religious homes. Many were sent
to mosques and Koran courses.
-- They work mostly in the Taksim, Cihangir, Tarlabasi,
Galata, Kuledibi, Beyoglu, Dolapdere, Etiler, Moda and
Kadikoy districts. END TEXT.
¶10. Published by Cumhuriyet on Sunday, December 25:
BEGIN TEXT: Professors Esin Kuntay and Guliz Erginsoy
wrote a book on girls who are younger than 18 and who
are used as sex slaves. The name of the book is "Girls
Who are Commercial Sex Workers."
Kuntay wrote, "These children are victims. If somebody
holds their hands, a great majority can be saved.
There are those who began this business when they were
10 or 11."
The book tells about the life stories of these child
victims of exploitation.
The writers were aiming to help these girls and the
UNICEF Turkey office, the Interior Ministry and Turkish
National Police and the Istanbul Governor's office
supported them. As a result, a "First Step Center" was
established. Some of the girls who once worked as sex
slaves are now living in this center.
Professors Kuntay and Erginsoy said, "As two female
sociologists, we have done our best given the
conditions, but we do not find this sufficient. We
need important and long-term moral and financial
support from the public, the civic society, the youth,
academicians, international organizations, foundations
and associations."
The professors spoke to 30 girls aged between 14 and 18
who worked as sex workers.
Highlights include:
-- The most convenient places for them to work in the
city center are: the European side (Taksim, Cihangir,
Tarlabasi, Galata, Kuledibi, Dolapdere and Etiler), and
the Asian side (Moda and Kadikoy).
-- Some houses, bars, hotels and restaurants in these
districts are open 24 hours a day.
-- In Aksaray and Laleli, the sex slaves from Romania,
Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova dominate
the trade.
-- Other alternatives are Bakirkoy and Atakoy, along
with Istiniye, Bostanci and Maltepe.
-- Outside the city center, they operate in districts
such as Avcilar, Kanarya, Sefakoy, Cekmece, Belgrade
Woods, Kilyos and Polonezkoy. In these districts, they
use houses, cafes, hotels, parks, parking lots and the
forest.
-- These girls would like to have a decent job and a
house.
-- Some of them would like to see their families and be
a housewife, raising kids.
-- Some would like to learn how to use a computer.
-- Some wanted to go back to age three or four and live
without realizing the things they experienced.
Sample stories included:
-- My mother might even kill someone. She told me that
she would break my legs if I ever go out again. She
has not done so yet, but it is hard to tell what she
would do if she got really angry. She keeps throwing
things at me.
-- My mother beat me. She pinned me down with a dog
leash. She broke a stick on my back.
-- My father did not come home for a year. Later he
asked me to beg. He hung me from the ceiling and beat
me. I began to beg. He was beating me with a stick.
-- He took me to his car and he did not even pay me.
He burned me with his cigarette. I began to scream and
he put a sheet in my mouth. END TEXT.
¶11. Published by the Turkish Daily News on Tuesday,
December 27:
TITLE: Police chief in China for talks
BEGIN TEXT: Police Director-General Gokhan Aydiner
yesterday met with Chinese Public Security Minister
Zhou Yongkang as part of his talks in Beijing, reported
the Anatolia news agency.
The talks between the two officials centered on the
improvement of cooperation between the police
directorates of Turkey and China.
The Turkish delegation, led by Aydiner, had a meeting
later in the day with Chinese officials to seek ways to
fight cross-border crimes including terrorism and human
trafficking. The Turkish delegation is set to depart
today for Sanya and Shenzen and will return home on
January 1 after a visit to Hong Kong. END TEXT.
¶12. Published by The Independent on Wednesday, December 28:
TITLE: Customers help stamp out Turkey's sex slaves
BEGIN TEXT: By Meriel Beattie in Ankara
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.
In the past six months, 100 women - mostly from
Ukraine, Moldova, Romania or Russia - have been rescued
from sex slavery and Turkish police have broken up 10
trafficking networks.
There are two reasons for these results. A charge-free
hotline was set up in May by the UN's International
Organization for Migration (IOM) for women to call for
help. It is staffed by multi-lingual operators who try
to pinpoint where the women are - and then send in the
police.
But the second, more unexpected, factor is the chivalry
of the Turkish brothel client. Since the hotline
started, 74 per cent of tip-offs have come from men:
customers who have learned to spot the difference
between a professional prostitute, and someone who has
been forced into it.
"I have been very surprised," said Marielle Lindstrom,
head of the IOM in Turkey. "We have not noticed this
anywhere in Europe. Turkish men seem to have an old-
fashioned view of women. They do not mind using
prostitutes, but they want the women to be doing this
willingly. If she is found not to be doing it
willingly . it affects their pride."
Unlike the professional Russian prostitutes, nicknamed
"Natashas," who invaded casinos and clubs of holiday
resorts in the 1990s, the trafficked women are not
migrant sex workers.
Typically they have been tricked into thinking they are
coming to better-paid jobs. "I was told that someone
named Veysel would meet me at the Antalya airport and
take me to my new job," one 31-year-old Moldovan woman
told her rescuers. "Instead he took my passport and
took me to a village. They put a gun to my head and
threatened me, and then beat me. They told me if I did
not consent, they would kill me. They kept me locked
in the house and brought customers to me."
The hotline was publicized in two ways: passport
officials at borders and airports slip an information
leaflet into the passports of women from high-risk
countries; and a Russian language advert has been
playing on Turkish television stations.
"Turkey respects your rights," it says. "If anyone
takes away your passport, your freedom, or forces you
to perform work of any kind without pay, call the
helpline 157, free of charge. Any time, any phone."
END TEXT.
¶13. Published by Hurriyet and Vatan on Wednesday, December
28:
TITLE: New Year's address "Mother Santa" service
BEGIN TEXT: A raid was carried out on a house which
was going to offer "Mother Santa"-costumed women. The
female ringleader, along with five gang members and 11
prostitutes, were caught.
Upon a tip, four plainclothes policemen called a cell
phone number of a member of a gang which reportedly was
selling women. When the police found out that women
dressed up as "Mother Santa" were being provided to
special customers for New Year's, they posed as
clients.
The policemen got in contact with the ringleader, Z.O.,
gave an important name as a reference, and made a deal.
Each woman would cost 250 Euros. Giving marked bills,
the police raided a house in the Gursu District and
arrested 11 prostitutes, four of them foreign. The
ringleader, Z.O., and gang members M.C., K.S., K.U.,
Y.G. and G.C. were arrested. Six of the suspects were
sent to the judiciary. END TEXT.
¶14. Published by the Turkish Daily News on Thursday,
December 29:
TITLE: Free hotline service set up to help women
proves to be successful
BEGIN TEXT: The practice of a charge-free hotline,
which was set up in May by the United Nations'
International Organization for Migration (IOM) for
women to call for help, has been successful, the
Anatolia news agency said yesterday.
In the past six months, 100 women - mostly from
Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Russia - have been
rescued from sex slavery, and Turkish police have
broken up 10 trafficking networks.
Since the hotline started, 74 percent of tip-offs have
come from men: customers who have learned to spot the
difference between a professional prostitute and
someone who has been forced into it.
"I have been surprised," Marielle Lindstrom, head of
the IOM in Turkey, told the British daily The
Independent. "We have not noticed this anywhere in
Europe. Turkish men seem to have an old-fashioned view
of women. They do not mind using prostitutes, but they
want the woman to be doing this willingly. If she is
found not to be doing it willingly . it affects their
pride." END TEXT.
¶15. Carried by Vatan, Radikal, Aksam, Hurriyet and Milliyet
on Thursday, December 29:
TITLE: Turkish men are UN knights
BEGIN TEXT: Seventy-four percent of the calls into the
hotline for women forced into prostitution are from
men, which has surprised the foreign press.
The United Nations' International Office for Migration
(IOM) has reported that seventy-four percent of the
calls coming into a free hotline for women forced into
prostitution come from men.
Quoting IOM's Marielle Lindstrom in the British
Independent, it was stated that IOM officials were
surprised that callers were mostly men trying to help
human trafficking victims. Lindstrom said that nowhere
else in Europe had they encountered such a thing.
The Independent noted that brothel clients were the
heroes helping those women who were forced into
prostitution in Turkey.
Lindstrom noted that in the last six months around 100
sex slaves, mostly from the Ukraine, Moldova, Romania
and Russia were saved. The Turkish police uprooted ten
gangs.
She noted that Turkish men regarded women in the old-
fashioned way. They reportedly did not mind going to
prostitutes as long as they did their job voluntarily.
"If they notice that women are doing it involuntarily,
then their ego gets hurt," she noted. END TEXT.
¶16. Published in the December edition of IOM's Migration
magazine:
TITLE: Elena's Ordeal - The Story of a Trafficked
Woman, by Lilia Cojocaru, IOM Chisinau
BEGIN TEXT: "It was five o'clock in the morning. They
got me drunk and fell asleep. I went to the balcony
and there I saw my chance for escape," recalls Elena, a
19-year-old Moldovan girl. She had risked her life to
escape from a high-rise building in Turkey where she
had been imprisoned and forced into prostitution.
"Between the sixth and fifth floor I lost my grip and
fell. Suddenly, everything around me was like a white
light."
Like many other Moldovan girls, Elena had been driven
to leave the country in search of a better life. "My
father died when I was 12 and my mother is retired.
Her pension is so small that we could not survive. I
found a job in a neighboring town, but the two dollars
I got a day was not enough to earn a living. One day,
a relative who was living in Turkey came up to me and
suggested I go to work in Istanbul. I agreed," she
explains.
She got a job as a shop assistant. After several
months she went home to Moldova to see her mother. But
when she returned, her job had gone and it was not easy
finding another one. As she was not working, when two
women she knew invited her one day to join them and
their boyfriends on a trip to the Turkish capital
resort of Antalya for a few days, she agreed.
"When we arrived, they said they would go shopping and
left me with two men in the apartment. They took my
passport and sold me like a piece of merchandise to
some other man," she said, with tears in her eyes at
the memory.
For the next 15 days, Elena was forced to work as a
prostitute with three to four clients a day. Desperate
to escape her imprisonment, she decided to climb down
from the seventh floor balcony where she was. She got
as far as the window below before literally slipping to
freedom. The escape attempt left her with numerous
life-threatening injuries, including a crush spinal
cord and pelvis.
Luckily for Elena, the people who found her took her to
a hospital. She was eventually referred to IOM whose
missions in Turkey and Moldova organized for her return
to Moldova with a medical escort.
"Elena was brought to the IOM rehabilitation shelter in
Chisinau. She was in a bad physical and psychological
state. She could not move at all. At 19 years old,
she looked like a child. She was very thin. She
weighed only 35 kgs but she is 170 cm tall," recalls
Viorel Gorceag, medical officer at IOM Chisinau.
Her case is unfortunately not uncommon. Victims of
trafficking typically suffer a series of abuse - the
dismal conditions at home that push them into the hands
of traffickers, the abuse by pimps and clients alike,
the wounds and accidents they often suffer when trying
to free themselves and finally, the stigmatization when
they return home.
"For me the most heart-wrenching suffering is what they
endure when they are ready to risk everything to
escape. I have seen many women with broken limbs and
knife wounds after trying to escape their personal
hell," says Martin Andreas Wyss, IOM's Chief of Mission
to Moldova.
When Elena arrived at the rehabilitation center, she
was depressed and no longer had a desire to live. The
only person she wanted to see was her mother. But six
weeks on at the IOM center, her psychological state, if
not her physical state, had improved significantly.
Enough for her to regain the will to live.
It was this fighting spirit that impressed a group of
US Congresswomen visiting the IOM center.
"When our Congressional delegation on sex trafficking
saw Elena and heard her story, we were very moved. We
knew . that medical treatment in her home country
offered little prospect of improving her physical
health, so we decided to help. I did not know where to
start, so I called my good friend, Dr. Pedro Nosnik,
who led me to the physicians at the Texas Back
Institute," Kay Granger of Fort Worth, Texas said. "I
was haunted by her story."
Now the Texas Back Institute Research Foundation in the
US, which agreed not to charge Elena for treatment,
reports incredible results. Elena can move all her
extremities and appears to have full strength and
ability in her legs.
For physical therapy, Elena was moved to a senior
citizen care facility near the hospital. It was the
only place where the Foundation could host her but they
were worried about her living with older people.
However, the residents welcomed her with open arms.
"I feel so grateful that we have gotten to meet Elena.
She is such an amazing person," said Britney Chambers,
spokesperson for the Texas Back Institute. "I cannot
imagine going through what she has been through and
coming out smiling and positive like Elena. She feels
like she can take on the world now, and I believe she
can."
Congresswoman Granger also sees the change. "When I
first saw Elena in the Moldovan shelter, she was a
young lady without much hope. Today, Elena can walk
well with the aid of a cane . and has hope for the
future, for living life to its fullest. Her eyes are
alive with excitement, something that was not there a
few short months ago," she explains. END TEXT.
WILSON