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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Turkey.htm
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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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Human trafficking ‘world-wide epidemic,’ Jennifer Daddario
Staff Reporter, www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2007/04/26/news/local/human0427.txt [accessed 1 January 2011] 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. Craig S. Smith, The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/world/europe/27iht-turkey.html?_r=2 [accessed 12 September 2011] 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 Independent Online (IOL) News, Dushanbe, 5
November 2004 www.iol.co.za/news/world/woman-jailed-for-forcing-child-into-sex-trade-1.226224 [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/turkey.htm [accessed 1 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Girls are trafficked to Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61680.htm [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 Ercan Yavuz,
Today’s Zaman, www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=144149 [accessed 1 January 2011] According to
research Polat conducted himself, the frequency of
cases of sexual abuse and exploitation is highest in the cities of
İstanbul, Woman jailed for forcing child into sex
trade Independent Online (IOL) News, www.iol.co.za/news/world/woman-jailed-for-forcing-child-into-sex-trade-1.226224 [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 Today’s Zaman,
İstanbul, 22 January 2008 www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=132198&bolum=102 [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 Hans M. Wuerth,
Special to The Morning Call - Freelance | October 2, 2007 articles.mcall.com/2007-10-02/news/3781642_1_human-trafficking-world-s-human-rights-abuses [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 Sue Sprenkle,
Baptist Press, CHISINAU, www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=26535 [accessed 1 January 2011] Hoping to make
money to help her husband support their family, a young Moldovan woman named
Irina took a job in 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 Today’s Zaman, www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=116580&bolum=101 [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 Dennis Geisinger,
Pulse of the Twin Cities, 13 June 2007 www.pulsetc.com/article00c2.html?op=Print&sid=3313 [accessed 1 January 2011] “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,’ Jennifer Daddario
Staff Reporter, www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2007/04/26/news/local/human0427.txt [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 NTV-MSNBC, arsiv.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402074.asp [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 Turkish Daily News, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] 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 Ayse Durukan,
eski.bianet.org/2006/05/01_eng/news78779.htm
[accessed 1 January 2011] A joint study
conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IMO) and 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 Amberin Zaman,
Special to The Times, articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/01/world/fg-turkey1 [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 United Press International UPI
International Edition, genderfcukbel.multiply.com/links/item/13 [accessed 1 January 2011] [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 Craig S. Smith, The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/world/europe/27iht-turkey.html?_r=2 [accessed 12 September 2011] 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 Turkish Daily News, 13 February 2005 --
Source:
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?webcat=diplomacy&enewsid=5790 [accessed 1 January 2011] 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 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/turkey [accessed 28 June 2012] Human Rights Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/turkey [accessed 2 January 2011] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, January
2011 [accessed 2 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DR417 .T874
1996 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/trtoc.html [accessed 2 January 2011] Novinite - Sofia News
Agency, 9 March 2005 www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=45415 [accessed 2 January 2011] 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 Herald Sun ( greenethoughts.blogspot.com/2004/07/model-of-democracy.html [accessed 2 January 2011] 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 Amnesty International, Index Number: EUR
44/022/2004, Date Published: 31 May
2004 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR44/022/2004 [accessed 2 January 2011] 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 Human Rights Association of Panlýurfa [accessed 2 January 2011] Honor killings are forms of extra judicial executions. The inadequate number of women’s shelters in International Migration: Promoting Management
and Integration [PDF] UN Economic Commission for Europe UNECE --
Statement by Professor N. Gaye Erbatur, Member
of Parliamentary Group on Population
and Development, www.unece.org/pau/_docs/pau/2004/PAU_2004_EPF_Sess4ReactErbatur.pdf [Last accessed 2 January 2011] In recent years, While their presence in Human trafficking ring smashed in Britain,
Germany Agence France-Presse AFP, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 September 2011] Eight people have been arrested in The immigrants were brought in by air, road and sea
through Dying to Leave Thirteen, www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dying-to-leave/human-trafficking-worldwide/turkey/1469/ [accessed 26 December 2010] VICTIMS - Some 250,000
people have been trafficked through Irregular Migration and Trafficking in
Women : The Case of Prof. Dr. Sema Erder and Dr. Selmin Kaska, International Organization for Migration (IOM),
November 2003, ISBN 92-9068-178-0 [accessed 2 January 2011] 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 Child Labour Persists Around The World:
More Than 13 Percent Of Children 10-14 Are Employed International Labour Organisation (ILO)
News, www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/WCMS_008058/lang--en/index.htm [accessed 9 September 2011] "Today's child
worker will be tomorrow's uneducated and untrained adult, forever trapped in
grinding poverty. No effort should be spared to break that vicious
circle", says ILO Director-General Michel Hansenne. Among the countries
with a high percentage of their children from 10-14 years in the work force
are: Mali, 54.5 percent; Burkina Faso, 51; Niger and Uganda, both 45; Kenya,
41.3; Senegal, 31.4; Bangladesh, 30.1; Nigeria, 25.8; Haiti, 25; Turkey, 24; Côte d'Ivoire, 20.5;
Pakistan, 17.7; Brazil, 16.1; India, 14.4; China, 11.6; and Egypt, 11.2. |
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