Life made harder for Russian prostitutes in Turkey

Such new introductions are implied by the law that was passed back in early 2002 and was applied in full starting January 2004. The law was developed as part of the Turkish government’s fight against illegal immigration and fraudulent marriages.

This law was initiated by Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT), which presented a secret report to the country’s National Security Council, which pointed out that ‘priestesses of love’ from the countries of the former ‘Eastern Bloc’ (mainly Russia) are posing a serious threat to national security of Turkey.

According to MIT, the number of people obtaining citizenship in such a way would have been several hundred thousand within the next few years, had the preventive measures on fake marriages not been adopted.

This in turn would have affected the process of elections in the country, which the secret services were especially concerned about from the national security standpoint.

Turkish secret services are convinced that some of the prostitutes from the former socialist countries, mostly from Russia whom they call ‘Natashas’, are cooperating with their secret services and carrying out their assignments.

The report stressed that Russian prostitutes are inflicting economic damage on Turkey of several million dollars a year and bringing a considerable part of these funds out of the country.

But Turkish authorities are most likely concerned not only about the issues of the country’s security and economy, but also about the problem of moral degradation as well as about a threat coming to the health of the young Turkish generation from Russian prostitutes.

The above-mentioned report stressed the negative influence on the youth.

«Hundreds of students of the Black Sea region ‘pass’ by the hotels that offer the services of ‘Natashas’. Ancient moral principles of a Turkish family are collapsing. Sharp increase of crime rate has been spotted in many areas where such ‘business’ exists,” the report points out.

Turkish authorities also believe that many Russian ‘Natashas’ are direct bearers of AIDS, the «plague of the 20th century», as well as other serious diseases.

The experts say that three women infected with AIDS are able to infect 100,000 people.

Rauf Mamedov, student, Ankara, Turkey