"Wed & Release": Moroccan Women With Expired Visas Paid to Marry Turks, in Ankara

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 10 July 2025)

                Honeymoon was to be in Casablanca.

Moroccan women in Turkey with expired visas married  

Turkish men to remain in the country - the marriages were

arranged for money by go-betweens working with municipal

marriage officials in 9 districts of Ankara. (!) 

It has been determined that the documents required from 

the Moroccan government for the marriages were fake.  In

all, 30 people were taken into custody in connection with 

the scam, 10 of them municipal marriage officials.  The

marriages have been voided and the women expelled from

Turkey. 

"We'll always have...uh...Ankara"