Reuters, October 2, 2000
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) -- Police deported 150
women suspected of prostitution from eastern Turkey, state-run Anatolian
news agency said on Monday.
They raided hotels and restaurants in the town of
Igdir, near the Armenian border, and detained women who lacked proper
visas. The women were deported on Saturday after doctors had examined
them, a local official told Reuters.
The official would not say where the women were sent.
Anatolian said authorities launched the investigation after receiving
complaints from residents that the women were ``ruining family relations
and wrecking homes.''
Nicknamed ``Natashas,'' thousands of women from the
former communist bloc arrive in Turkey each year to work in the sex
trade.