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(Hürriyet Daily News, 10 October 2018)
Meow-ish spoken here.
Three sex workers in the northwestern Turkish
province of Edirne have filed a criminal complaint
against the owners of a legal brothel for dismissing
them for feeding stray cats.
Demirören News Agency reported on Oct. 9 that the
three sex workers were feeding more than 30 street
animals in the apartment inside the brothel complex
that they rented 10 months ago. They also built a hut
for stray cats and dogs in the garden of the main
building of the brothel.
apparently not shared by some of their colleagues,
who complained to the owners of the brothel earlier
this year.
Edirne's USA sister province.
“They fired us and kicked us out of our apartment
because we were looking after those animals. They
shot one of our cats, named Kınalı, with a pump-action
shotgun. He still lives with 11 pellets in his body,”
Mürvet Taşvur, one of the sex workers, told the agency.
The assailants were only issued fines in the lack of
“The people in the brothel and its owners are
monsters,” Taşvur said, noting that they recently
filed a criminal complaint at the Edirne Chief
Prosecutor’s Office.
Adding that she could be able to regularly feed the
animals that remained in the brothel in company of
local animal rights’ activists, she said: “We will
pursue our legal rights till the end.”
Prostitution in officially registered brothels, known
as “general houses,” is legal in Turkey.
Under health laws dealing with sexually transmitted
infections, the state’s regulatory agencies issue identity
cards to sex workers that give them rights to some free
medical care and other social services.
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