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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the
first ten years of the 21st Century -
2000 to 2009
Turkey is a destination and, to a lesser extent, transit
country for women and children predominately from Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union trafficked primarily for the purpose of commercial sexual
exploitation and, to a lesser degree, for the purpose of forced labor. According to Armenian NGOs and the
Government of Armenia, the trafficking of Armenian women to Turkey for the
purpose of sexual exploitation continued to be a problem, although the Government
of Turkey did not identify any such victims in 2008. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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trafficking ‘world-wide epidemic,’ One of the stories Bartell related was about Svetlana, a young Russian
woman. She was promised a well-paying job in Istanbul, Turkey, by two men.
Once she arrived, her passport and money were taken away, and she was locked
up and forced into prostitution. Desperate to escape, she jumped out of a
window when she was with a customer and fell six stories. Instead of taking her to the hospital, the
customer called the traffickers. Untreated, she ultimately died. Turkey's sex
trade entraps Slavic women At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly also be accessible [here]
The women arrive here by ferry
from across the Most come of their own free will,
but many end up as virtual slaves, sold from pimp to pimp through a loosely
organized criminal network that stretches from Moscow to Istanbul and beyond.
Woman jailed for forcing child into sex trade Last week a non-governmental organisation said there was a growing trend in the abduction and sale of Tajik boys for sexual exploitation abroad. The Modar organisation said groups in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much as $70 000 for a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs - 2004 INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Girls are trafficked to Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Foreign
victims trafficked to the country were typically recruited by small networks
of foreign nationals and Turkish citizens who relied on referrals and
recruitment from friends and family members in the source country. Some
victims answered newspaper advertisements or enlisted the help of job
agencies in the source country. The victims often did not know where they
were going or which airlines they were using. Some victims reportedly arrived
in the country knowing that they would work illegally in the sex industry;
however, most arrived believing they would work as models, waitresses, dancers,
domestic servants, or in other regular employment. Traffickers typically
confiscated victims' documents, then confined, raped, beat, starved, and
intimidated them by threatening their families and ultimately forced them
into prostitution. Not all trafficking cases were for
sexual purposes. One foreign victim was saved from domestic servitude after
calling the trafficking hot line. The media reported that young Turkish men
and women, many underage, were recruited to work in brick factories in Tekirdag Province, receiving little or no salaries and
living in hazardous conditions on site. Rise
in sexual abuse of minors in Turkey sets alarm bells ringing According to research Polat conducted himself, the frequency of cases of sexual
abuse and exploitation is highest in the cities of İstanbul,
Diyarbakır and Bursa. Children trafficked from
countries such as Ukraine, Moldova and Russia, as well as southeastern
Turkey, are forced into prostitution in İstanbul.
He says forced marriages of young girls to older men in return for money
remains a persistent and traditional sexual crime against children in Diyarbakır. Woman jailed for forcing child into sex trade Last week a non-governmental organisation said there was a growing trend in the
abduction and sale of Tajik boys for sexual exploitation abroad. The Modar organisation said groups
in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey,
Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much as $70 000 for
a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. Fight
against human trafficking continues, data reveal Turkey, a transit country for
citizens of countries in the former Soviet bloc as well as the Middle East,
who aspire for a better life in wealthy European countries, has also been
emerging as a destination country in recent years due to its improving living
standards and stable economy. Most of the human trafficking victims come from
countries like Ukraine or Moldova to Turkey in hopes of finding a job but end
up being trafficked for sexual exploitation. A significant instrument in the
rescue of human trafficking victims is a hotline launched in 2005. According
to the report, some 56 people were rescued by security forces after victims
themselves or others dialed 157 for help. As in previous years, the clients
of women forced to prostitute themselves proved to be the most helpful:
Clients or friends/relatives of the women made 81 percent of the calls to
157, while only 19 percent of the calls were made by the victims themselves. Trafficking
in women remains a global abuse www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=132198&bolum=102 www.oneinfour.org/news/intnews2007/globalabuse/ The June 28, 2007, German weekly,
Die Zeit, published an article on the growing
problem of human trafficking in Trafficking victims
prompt new Baptist ministry in Moldova Hoping to make money to help her
husband support their family, a young Moldovan woman named Irina took a job in Turkey
offered through a friend. Upon arriving there, she was placed in a room of an
abandoned casino with three other girls. Periodically, a guard entered the
room and took one of the captives to a client. The girls were not paid any
money and often were severely beaten by the guard and clients. One day, Irina
and one of the other girls managed to pry open the window of the second-story
room and jump to the alley below. A kind stranger bought a ticket back to
Moldova for her. Once home, however, she felt dirty and out of place. Combating
human trafficking under one roof Güneş designated the Public Security
Department a coordination unit to organize operations against human
trafficking under one roof. He said that in 2006 in Turkey, 104 cases of
human trafficking had been discovered and 404 suspects were apprehended along
with 117 victims. According to the minister, 31 cases have been reported
since the beginning of 2007 in which 102 suspects were taken into custody and
43 victims rescued. Turkish
speaker at Humphrey Institute presents her research on human trafficking www.southsidepride.com/2007/06/articles/Turkishspeakerhumantraffickin.htm www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=3313 “At least 97 percent of the
traffic is for the purposes of sexual exploitation,” said Altuntas.
“One out of three women trafficked to Turkey are mothers who are lured by
chances of making a better life for their children,” she said. A Turkish ad campaign designed to
help these victims features the face of a young child asking the question,
“Have you seen my mother?” Turkey has also begun a 24-hour
hotline for trafficking victims, distributing information cards that list the
hotline number with the plea, “If anyone takes away your passport, your
freedom or forces you to perform work of any kind without pay, call the
helpline.” The cards are printed in four languages and are being handed out
at border crossings and transportation hubs. Human
trafficking ‘world-wide epidemic,’ One of the stories Bartell related was about Svetlana, a young Russian
woman. She was promised a well-paying job in Istanbul, Turkey, by two men.
Once she arrived, her passport and money were taken away, and she was locked
up and forced into prostitution. Desperate to escape, she jumped out of a
window when she was with a customer and fell six stories. Instead of taking her to the hospital, the
customer called the traffickers. Untreated, she ultimately died. Operation
into Turkish human trafficking gang expanded Turkish police on Wednesday
expanded their operation targeting a gang involved in human trafficking to
cover six separate provinces. Among those detained was a retired police chief
who also worked as the security co-ordinator for
the Turkish retailing company Yimpas. Police took
almost one hundred people into custody who had obtained visas with false
identifications for European Union countries. 687 people tried for human trafficking last year www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=51099 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Criminal courts in Turkey is a major destination and
transit country for women and children trafficked primarily for sexual
exploitation and, to a lesser extent, forced labor. In 2005, the
International Organization for Migration (IOM) office in Turkey reported that
60 percent of cases identified involved victims from Ukraine and Moldova;
other victims are trafficked from throughout Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union. Reports of trafficking within Turkey were continuing, it said.
Turkish traffickers used violence to control their victims, often using
threats against victims' families as a powerful form of coercion. Human Trafficking
Victims on Rise IOM, has stated that the women are
trafficked against their own will, by force, kidnapped without compensation
in any form and then sold. It said the organisation
has provided support for 55 human trafficking case victims in the first three
months of 2006 alone. Sex
Trafficking Plagues Turkey This nation has become one of the
largest markets in the trafficking of women from nearby former Soviet states
who have been forced into prostitution, with profits from the illicit sex
trade in Turkey an estimated $3.6 billion last year and growing, an
international agency said in a report released Tuesday. Ukrainian
women freed from sexual slavery in Turkey thanks to phone tip-off [scroll down to Wednesday, August
10, 2005] The women - one of whom was held
for six years - were set to return to Ukraine after being rescued by Turkish
police following a call to the "157" hotline, which is run by the IOM,
the Geneva-based organization said.
Impoverished women from Eastern Europe are lured to Turkey's sex
trade entraps Slavic women At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly also be accessible [here]
The
women arrive here by ferry from across the Most
come of their own free will, but many end up as virtual slaves, sold from
pimp to pimp through a loosely organized criminal network that stretches from
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?webcat=diplomacy&enewsid=5790 Her
captors were not moved by her plea that she could not have sex because of her
pregnancy. A week after she gave birth to her baby, one of the captors pushed
chewing gum into the baby's mouth and killed it because the mother was
spending too much time taking care of the kid, rather than the clients. Freedom House Country Report
- Political Rights: 3 Civil
Liberties: 3 Status:
Partly Free Human Rights Overview by
Human Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page U.S. Library of Congress - Country Study Sofia, Istanbul Bust Human Organ
Trafficking Ring Bulgarian and Turkish police have disclosed a major channel for
human organ trafficking, which was spreading on the territory of both
countries. The alleged female
mastermind and her two accomplices were arrested and face charges they have
talked various people into selling off their kidneys to a private clinic in
Turkey for USD 2,500-5,000 a piece. The price varied depending on the blood
group, Bulgarian police sources explained. The Model Of Democracy in the Islamic
world is what Bush called Turkey A
13-year-old Turkish girl was married off by her family to her rapist who paid
them "the price of a truck" to escape a long jail sentence,
newspapers in www.amnesty.org/en/alfresco_asset/1b6ebb7b-a53a-11dc-a92d-271514ed133d/eur440222004en.html GULDUNYA
TOREN - Guldunya Toren
named her new baby "Hope". She knew that the two of them might not
have long to live. After she became pregnant, she had refused to marry her
cousin and was sent to her uncle’s house in Turkey: Panlýurfa
declaration on violence against women Honor
killings are forms of extra judicial executions. The
inadequate number of women’s shelters in International Migration: Promoting Management and
Integration
[DOC] www.unece.org/pau/epf/part_react/pa_ts4/erbatur.doc In
recent years, While
their presence in Human trafficking ring smashed in Britain, Germany germany.news.designerz.com/human-trafficking-ring-smashed-in-britain-germany.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Eight
people have been arrested in The
immigrants were brought in by air, road and sea through BACKGROUND
- As a bridge between Europe and Asia, Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Women : The Case of
www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/1674?entryId=9604 DESCRIPTION
- This report provides a comprehensive view of the mechanisms and
institutions involved in the trafficking of women in TABLE
OF CONTENTS - Executive Summary * Part I : Irregular
Migration and Trafficking in Women in |
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