0:00:02 > 0:00:04This programme contains some strong language
0:00:04 > 0:00:06and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:00:06 > 0:00:09'With one foot in Europe and one in the Middle East,
0:00:09 > 0:00:11'Turkey is one of our top holiday destinations.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14'But civil war in Syria has brought Isis to its doorstep...'
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Come in.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17'..and trouble is now spilling across the border.'
0:00:17 > 0:00:20I'm not having it. You guys are all racist.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23They have issues because she's Syrian.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26'With religious fundamentalism on the rise in Turkey as well...'
0:00:29 > 0:00:32'..I'm here to find out how much tougher life is
0:00:32 > 0:00:35'getting for women and sex workers in particular...'
0:00:35 > 0:00:41They say that she should not be doing sex work if she wants to live.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43'..as the authorities crack down
0:00:43 > 0:00:46'on a century of legalised prostitution.'
0:00:46 > 0:00:47Have a good night.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50I think we're slowly outstaying our welcome.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02This is the Turkish city of Gaziantep,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05just 30 miles from the Syrian border.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10It's a dangerous place and we can only be here for a few hours.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14You can really feel the influence of the civil war next door
0:01:14 > 0:01:17and Isis are known to have a presence here.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21I've come to understand the impact extremist beliefs are having
0:01:21 > 0:01:23on some women's lives in this region.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28Two girls, both around my age, are coming here to tell me
0:01:28 > 0:01:29their stories.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33They both have first-hand experience of how women are used
0:01:33 > 0:01:35as sex slaves by Isis.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38So I've just heard that Leyla's in the car, she's on her way to us.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42She's incredibly nervous. She feels really frightened.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Just last week, two journalists had their throats slit
0:01:46 > 0:01:49and Isis have claimed responsibility
0:01:49 > 0:01:54and there's an Isis presence here, so I think she'll feel safer here.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57I just want her to be able to speak openly, you know?
0:01:58 > 0:02:02We're in lockdown. For my own safety, I can't leave the hotel.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06All I can do is wait.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19Hello. How are you? Come in.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22'Both girls are from moderate Muslim families.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25'They're incredibly brave even talking to me.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28'It's too dangerous for them to be identified in any way.'
0:02:28 > 0:02:29- Leyla?- Leyla.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Stacey. How do you do? Thank you for coming to speak to me.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34I really appreciate it.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37'Hiba, on the left, has been in Turkey a few months,
0:02:37 > 0:02:41'but Leyla has only just escaped from the clutches of Isis.'
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Before Isis became so powerful...
0:02:44 > 0:02:47would you dress like this ordinarily?
0:03:02 > 0:03:05'Leyla lived with her family before getting married,
0:03:05 > 0:03:08'but her husband was killed in an air strike and, despite being
0:03:08 > 0:03:12'completely covered, she unfortunately caught the attention of a jihadi soldier.'
0:03:20 > 0:03:24He decides that he wants you to be his wife. What happens next?
0:03:30 > 0:03:35As much as you feel comfortable telling me, can you describe...
0:03:37 > 0:03:41..what your relationship was like, sexually?
0:03:55 > 0:03:59So you must pleasure him, sexually, every single night?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04It's so important.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10I mean, to me, it sounds like they're used like sexual objects.
0:04:33 > 0:04:34Are you OK?
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Feel OK?
0:04:45 > 0:04:48You tell me if you need to stop, that's totally fine.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56So how long were you forced to live like this?
0:05:14 > 0:05:15'If a married fighter dies,
0:05:15 > 0:05:18'his wife gets passed on to his fellow fighters.'
0:05:18 > 0:05:21What was going on inside your mind at that time?
0:05:34 > 0:05:38'Leyla managed to flee and get across the border into Turkey.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41'I so hope she can rebuild her life.'
0:05:41 > 0:05:43I think she's incredibly brave
0:05:43 > 0:05:47for having the courage to come and speak to me.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50- Thank you so much.- Thank YOU.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54- See you. Bye.- Take care. Lots of love. Bye.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Thanks, girls.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04It's just mental, isn't it? It's just...
0:06:10 > 0:06:12What can I say?
0:06:12 > 0:06:16When we see it on the news, when we read it in the papers...
0:06:16 > 0:06:19"Oh, that's sad, you know. Things must change."
0:06:21 > 0:06:23But very quickly they just become statistics,
0:06:23 > 0:06:25they just become numbers.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31They're human beings.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Isis want to rule completely under Islamic law.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44While the vast majority of Turkish Muslims see
0:06:44 > 0:06:48this as a distorted extreme, their new government has recently
0:06:48 > 0:06:51become much more religiously conservative.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57The exotic Turkey we know and love from holidays and the TV
0:06:57 > 0:07:00was founded almost 100 years ago with a constitution that
0:07:00 > 0:07:03separated religion and politics,
0:07:03 > 0:07:07and had surprisingly liberal views on women and sex work.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09The state even opened brothels.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14But under the new tough President Erdogan, attitudes towards sex
0:07:14 > 0:07:19and sex workers are shifting and the brothels are being shut down.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21I'm actually really curious to see what they look like.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26So I've never seen a legal brothel, not a state-run brothel.
0:07:26 > 0:07:32Zurafa Street is Istanbul's oldest and most famous red light district.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36I don't know which door is the entrance. So many men.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41Unlike any other red light district I've visited, all the brothels
0:07:41 > 0:07:46are hidden behind gates with security guards and metal detectors.
0:07:46 > 0:07:51Everyone is searched for weapons or cameras and it's strictly men only.
0:07:52 > 0:07:53No problem.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Oh, come on. Let's not push.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- Listen, I can stand here if I like. - OK. OK.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00This is a public space.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Yeah, we stay calm.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Tell me.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Because they're family men?
0:08:10 > 0:08:12There you go.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14That's what they're concerned about,
0:08:14 > 0:08:17that the guys that are going into this brothel are family men.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Total family...
0:08:22 > 0:08:26Deniz, a young guy on his way into the brothel, offers me
0:08:26 > 0:08:29an insight into why it's so popular with many Turkish men.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37But why not their wife?
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Wives - they must still have a sexual appetite.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Why?
0:09:03 > 0:09:04I find that hard to believe.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07- I am 28 and I love sex.- Yes.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Many women in their 20s love sex.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- Domestic violence towards women? - Yes.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33- Such a backwards mentality.- Yes.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Don't shout at me.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41He said, "I'm going to break your camera."
0:09:41 > 0:09:44- You should go, I think.- OK.
0:09:45 > 0:09:50Getting inside to speak to the sex workers here is not going to happen.
0:09:50 > 0:09:51Look at him edging me off.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53How far you want me away?
0:10:00 > 0:10:04Under the influence of the current government, local authorities
0:10:04 > 0:10:09have closed almost half of Turkey's 52 state-run brothels.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12During inspections, if there's any irregularity,
0:10:12 > 0:10:16no matter how small, it's used as an excuse to shut the place down.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21It's something the people in power really didn't want to talk
0:10:21 > 0:10:26to us about, so I'm travelling 360 miles to try to
0:10:26 > 0:10:30get into one of the handful of state brothels that are still running.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Kamal is helping us.
0:10:32 > 0:10:37He's an activist, a sex worker and a rare thing in Turkey - openly gay.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- Is he happy?- He's happy. He's wondering where we are.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48In terms of me, as a woman, being inside the brothel,
0:10:48 > 0:10:50is that going to be problematic?
0:10:50 > 0:10:52The main understanding of the state is that
0:10:52 > 0:10:56brothel is a place where immoral women, full of immoral women work,
0:10:56 > 0:11:01and they don't want immoral women and moral women get together.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04These women are not doing another job, but these are bad women,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07so they're not looking from a labour-based perspective,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10but looking from a moralistic perspective, two separate,
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- two groups of women. - So demonising the sex workers.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Demonising and stigmatising those women.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21- So this is it.- This is the door.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23- It's big.- That's quite big, yeah.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25DOG BARKING
0:11:28 > 0:11:33It's nothing like what I'd imagined. It's like a prison.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37Covered in barbed wire, huge walls, railings.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41I thought it would be down a dirty little alley.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48The atmosphere of the brothel feels a million miles from
0:11:48 > 0:11:51the bustling activity I witnessed in Istanbul.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56- Hello.- Hi.- How do you do?
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Mustafa, the owner.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01'And as brothel owner, Mustafa begins to give me the tour.'
0:12:01 > 0:12:05So, if I can see where the girls work, that would be amazing.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08'I soon discover why it feels like such a ghost town.'
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Why?
0:12:30 > 0:12:32This is a legal brothel, what's the issue?
0:12:32 > 0:12:36Why won't they just allow more women who want to come here, join up?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41The state, they're not only
0:12:41 > 0:12:45stopping new women to enter brothels as workers,
0:12:45 > 0:12:47- but they are demolishing brothels. - Why?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50From my own perspective, this is mainly
0:12:50 > 0:12:53because of their conservative Islamist ideology.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Do you think any of the girls here will talk to me today?
0:13:02 > 0:13:04I don't want to...
0:13:04 > 0:13:09put anyone at risk or make anyone feel uncomfortable, so I appreciate
0:13:09 > 0:13:11you allowing me in, because I know that's a very big deal.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15It's proving impossible in Istanbul, so thank you.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20I find some of the women who work and live here,
0:13:20 > 0:13:24but they're adamant they can't speak on camera.
0:13:24 > 0:13:25Even though it's official,
0:13:25 > 0:13:28they're convinced that if the authorities see them on screen,
0:13:28 > 0:13:33they'll lose their jobs, their permits and their pensions.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36One of them even tells me that her family would murder her
0:13:36 > 0:13:38if they knew what she did for a living
0:13:38 > 0:13:42and she's been lying about her job for 30 years.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Let's compromise - how about,
0:13:44 > 0:13:47can we do the interview here, near the sofas?
0:13:47 > 0:13:48Let's go outside.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53But then several clients arrive and the atmosphere changes.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56We don't want to upset the customers,
0:13:56 > 0:13:59because I don't want the girls missing out on money,
0:13:59 > 0:14:02so if I go right in this corner, do you think that's OK? Come on, then.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03Let's go outside for the minute.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09It feels a bit tense, a bit apprehensive,
0:14:09 > 0:14:11so I'm just going to come outside.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14How do you do?
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Have a good night. Goodnight. Goodnight.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21I think we're slowly outstaying our welcome.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29The mad thing is, right, that this brothel is completely legal.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31The girls, what they're doing, completely legal.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33The guys entering, no problems.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35No-one here is actually breaking the law,
0:14:35 > 0:14:37but despite all of that, they're all
0:14:37 > 0:14:42petrified of appearing on camera, and that does suggest that
0:14:42 > 0:14:48perhaps society here will not accept how they choose to make a living.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57With the stigma attached to their trade
0:14:57 > 0:15:00so great that they risk being killed, I'm not surprised
0:15:00 > 0:15:04that the prostitutes I'm meeting aren't willing to go on camera.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07But one brave sex worker has agreed to speak with me.
0:15:14 > 0:15:19Hulya, how are you? Lovely to meet you. I'm Stacey. How do you do?
0:15:19 > 0:15:21You look incredible.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27'Hulya works in one of Turkey's few remaining legal brothels.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29'As well as a shortage of licensed sex workers,
0:15:29 > 0:15:32'her brothel is experiencing an increase
0:15:32 > 0:15:34'in impromptu police checks.'
0:15:35 > 0:15:40Do you think the government disagrees with prostitution
0:15:40 > 0:15:45and are now going about trying to make it more difficult for you,
0:15:45 > 0:15:47trying to close these brothels down?
0:16:26 > 0:16:32'Sex is a taboo subject in Turkey and sex education is non-existent.'
0:17:03 > 0:17:06I mean, genuinely, you have guys trying to shag you
0:17:06 > 0:17:09by putting their dick in your belly button?
0:17:09 > 0:17:13It's one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard, I think,
0:17:13 > 0:17:16and I've spoken to many prostitutes all around the world,
0:17:16 > 0:17:17but THAT is a first.
0:17:17 > 0:17:22And I know, Hulya, you genuinely believe that brothels are necessary.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Why? Why are they so important?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10That's such a mental thought.
0:18:10 > 0:18:15What you're describing is guys with serious psychological issues.
0:18:16 > 0:18:21Sex workers like Hulya see up to 50 men a day and I'm shocked when
0:18:21 > 0:18:25she tells me she thinks maybe a third of her clients
0:18:25 > 0:18:26have similar fantasies.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34And, Hulya, how long have you been a sex worker?
0:18:37 > 0:18:40So someone forced you into this line of work when you were 15?
0:18:46 > 0:18:47Who?
0:18:53 > 0:18:56Where were your parents when this was going on?
0:19:03 > 0:19:07You were never really given a chance to even see
0:19:07 > 0:19:09if you would like to try any other career.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Well, yeah, ideally you would hope...
0:19:34 > 0:19:38..that women who are sex workers would have...
0:19:38 > 0:19:40the same kind of freedom as women
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- who choose not to have sex for a living.- Yeah.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Do you not get tired of being demonised?
0:19:45 > 0:19:49I look at you girls and I think, you are so strong and you are
0:19:49 > 0:19:54so brave and you continue fighting, but it must be exhausting.
0:20:05 > 0:20:10Hulya is one of the remaining 1,500 licensed sex workers in Turkey.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15But there are 100,000 unregistered prostitutes
0:20:15 > 0:20:17who are even more powerless.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23As the government takes a more hardline Islamic stance,
0:20:23 > 0:20:24liberals are fighting back.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28And some sex workers have the courage to stand alongside them.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34I'm en route to my first ever political rally in Turkey,
0:20:34 > 0:20:36and it's for the CH Party.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39They're the main opposition for the current government.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41They're a secular party.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44Turkey is days away from a general election,
0:20:44 > 0:20:46and it seems there are two choices -
0:20:46 > 0:20:49staying with the current conservative government
0:20:49 > 0:20:52or taking the country in a more liberal direction.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Wow!
0:20:53 > 0:20:55SHE LAUGHS
0:20:55 > 0:20:57I'm going to the rally with Derya,
0:20:57 > 0:21:01a transgender sex worker and supporter of the liberal CHP.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02You OK?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Nice to see you.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08She's already seen a shift in attitudes,
0:21:08 > 0:21:10and is worried life will only get worse.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29OK, let's shake a leg.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34SHE SINGS:
0:21:37 > 0:21:38I feel really excited to be here.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Inevitably there's going to be a lot of people
0:21:41 > 0:21:44with very strong opinions. They're going to be very passionate.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47There was a bombing in Ankara literally a couple of weeks ago,
0:21:47 > 0:21:49one of the deadliest bombings in Turkey.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51And that was supposed to be a peaceful protest.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54So let's just see how it goes. I'm sure it'll be fine.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58THEY CHANT
0:22:04 > 0:22:07All of these people
0:22:07 > 0:22:10are out here tonight because they've had enough, you know?
0:22:10 > 0:22:11They want change.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Just like Derya.
0:22:14 > 0:22:18She doesn't want to live feeling frightened all of the time.
0:22:18 > 0:22:23They're not interested in having an Islamic government.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25Not these people, anyway.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:22:34 > 0:22:37But my first Turkish political rally is cut short.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Derya is a woman in demand.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Wow, OK. I can come?
0:22:49 > 0:22:51- Come.- Yeah? Come on then, let's go.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Can't keep money waiting.
0:22:57 > 0:22:58Thank you.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12Transsexual sex workers are popular with Turkish men,
0:23:12 > 0:23:15but they're also far more likely to be abused.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35So, Derya, tell me what you bring with you. What's in your bag?
0:23:38 > 0:23:39IT BUZZES
0:23:39 > 0:23:40STACEY SHRIEKS
0:23:40 > 0:23:41SHE LAUGHS
0:23:47 > 0:23:49It's like a butcher's knife.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Have you ever used any of this stuff?
0:23:55 > 0:23:57SHE MAKES A BUZZING NOISE
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Derya's been a sex worker for almost 20 years
0:24:23 > 0:24:25and, like Hulya, feels trapped.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Yeah, I understand.
0:25:06 > 0:25:07Feel OK?
0:25:09 > 0:25:10Yeah?
0:25:12 > 0:25:13You got everything?
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Transsexuals aren't seen by the state as women,
0:25:18 > 0:25:21so they can't work in legal brothels.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23The only option is risking the streets,
0:25:23 > 0:25:25having strangers in their homes,
0:25:25 > 0:25:27or working in illegal sex houses.
0:25:35 > 0:25:40This is one of the most notorious illegal trans brothels in Istanbul.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46It's completely illegal.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50But for whatever reason, it's way more obvious.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53The legal brothels are actually quite hard to get into
0:25:53 > 0:25:54and are extremely well hidden.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56I just find it extraordinary
0:25:56 > 0:25:59that so many brothels are being closed down,
0:25:59 > 0:26:03and this is operating so obviously.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08And some of the men who are window shopping
0:26:08 > 0:26:09think I'm for sale too.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17I don't know if they think I'm a prostitute.
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Uh-oh.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25- You. You, I.- No, thank you.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29- Yeah, OK?- No, no, no.- OK? - Definitely not OK.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32These young boys keep asking me for sex.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35They are deluded. They're children.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37This is what they want.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- This is sex.- This is sex, yeah.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41- Sex, yeah.- This is definitely sex.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43- You, I.- Not in a million years.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44You think I'm easy?
0:26:46 > 0:26:47Why?
0:26:49 > 0:26:52To ask a woman that you don't know if you can kiss her
0:26:52 > 0:26:56and if you can shag her and show her pictures of anal sex on your phone -
0:26:56 > 0:26:59is that a bit rude? Do you think that's acceptable?
0:27:02 > 0:27:05- Playboy. Playboy.- You, I, yes.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09- Have you used the trans brothel? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Is it good?
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Four, four.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15- You've been in there four times? - Yeah, four.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Why do you prefer trans prostitutes?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25So talk me through what's hardcore to you.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Does she fuck you or do you fuck her?
0:27:33 > 0:27:35So you insert your penis into their arse?
0:27:37 > 0:27:41Would you describe yourselves as straight guys? Bisexuals?
0:27:45 > 0:27:48So why are you using trans prostitutes?
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Is there anything you would like to ask me?
0:27:56 > 0:27:59You just want to have sex with me? Are you being serious?
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Cos I'm actually starting to feel quite insulted.
0:28:01 > 0:28:05The assumption that you've made that I am just going to leap onto you
0:28:05 > 0:28:08because you have shown me one bit of interest.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11That's not how women operate. It's not how all women work.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13From speaking to these guys,
0:28:13 > 0:28:17it seems that one of the reasons trans prostitutes are so popular
0:28:17 > 0:28:21is that they indulge Turkish men's hardcore sexual fantasies.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25I can't talk to the women working here.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27Me and my camera are bad for business.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29SHOUTING:
0:28:33 > 0:28:35The camera. She's trying to wet the camera.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49To hear more about Turkish men's sexual preferences,
0:28:49 > 0:28:51I head back to Derya's.
0:28:53 > 0:28:54- Hello!- Ooh!
0:28:55 > 0:28:57But I have to wait in line.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59She's expecting a client any minute.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03As well as working on the streets,
0:29:03 > 0:29:05Derya also has a website.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07Those clients come to her home.
0:29:11 > 0:29:14Oh, you don't want us to see your boobs?
0:29:14 > 0:29:15They're nicer than mine.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17You're a beautiful woman.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20So tell me about this client tonight.
0:29:34 > 0:29:35Condom.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37Very necessary.
0:29:40 > 0:29:43- I won't say anything or go anywhere until you come and get me.- OK.
0:29:46 > 0:29:47Have fun.
0:29:48 > 0:29:49Put the TV on.
0:29:56 > 0:29:58This is the weirdest experience.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01WHISPERING: She's asked for the telly to be on,
0:30:01 > 0:30:04because even when she's alone,
0:30:04 > 0:30:07she'll make sure that they can hear the television
0:30:07 > 0:30:11so that the client assumes someone else is in the house.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14Means he's less likely to attack her.
0:30:15 > 0:30:19Inviting complete strangers into your personal space,
0:30:19 > 0:30:20into your home...
0:30:22 > 0:30:24So dangerous. I'd be petrified.
0:30:24 > 0:30:25DISTANT SQUEALING
0:30:29 > 0:30:32Hopefully he's nearly finished.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34Sounds like he is.
0:30:34 > 0:30:35What have I become?
0:30:41 > 0:30:43Like some weird English pervert.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45SHE LAUGHS
0:30:52 > 0:30:53STACEY LAUGHS
0:31:01 > 0:31:02Let me just see.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06Wow.
0:31:06 > 0:31:07You're red raw.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12Derya chose to keep her penis,
0:31:12 > 0:31:16and as a trans sex worker, she knows it's her biggest asset.
0:31:16 > 0:31:17So what happened?
0:31:33 > 0:31:35So he came by sucking your penis?
0:31:40 > 0:31:42So ordinarily, when they turn up,
0:31:42 > 0:31:44are they usually hard?
0:31:44 > 0:31:47They usually turned on, and you just have to finish them off?
0:32:03 > 0:32:07Do you think some of the guys who you believe to be gay
0:32:07 > 0:32:11are struggling to accept their sexuality,
0:32:11 > 0:32:14and so by using trans prostitutes
0:32:14 > 0:32:16they can somehow convince themselves
0:32:16 > 0:32:18they're not completely gay?
0:32:33 > 0:32:34How much did he pay you?
0:32:36 > 0:32:38Is that quite good?
0:32:41 > 0:32:43- Bye-bye.- Bye-bye. DERYA GIGGLES
0:32:44 > 0:32:45She's desperate to have a wash,
0:32:45 > 0:32:48cos she said she's all sweaty and dirty.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55It seems difficult in Turkey for men to be openly gay.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00I've left Istanbul to head to Turkey's capital, Ankara,
0:33:00 > 0:33:01to speak to Kemal,
0:33:01 > 0:33:04the openly gay sex worker and activist
0:33:04 > 0:33:05who got me into the brothel.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13- Kemal, how are you?- Hi!
0:33:13 > 0:33:15Trying to be good. How are you doing?
0:33:15 > 0:33:17I'm very well. I'm very well, thank you.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20- So welcome to the office.- Thank you.
0:33:20 > 0:33:21This is the office.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24This is something I haven't seen in Turkey just yet. SHE LAUGHS
0:33:24 > 0:33:28- Well, it's the rainbow thing that we are fighting for. - The first time I've seen it.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32As you see from the posters, what we do, actually, is raise awareness
0:33:32 > 0:33:36and visibility on human rights violations that sex workers face.
0:33:36 > 0:33:40We, for example, offer legal aid to victims of violence.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43This is one of the most important things that my organisation does.
0:33:43 > 0:33:45Tell me about the relationship generally
0:33:45 > 0:33:49between the authority figures and the sex workers here in Turkey.
0:33:49 > 0:33:52The AKP government, they want to get rid of sex workers.
0:33:52 > 0:33:56They wanted to cleanse the country
0:33:56 > 0:33:58from sex workers.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00And this is something I'm saying
0:34:00 > 0:34:02not because I'm exaggerating - this is the case.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04Why aren't people up in arms?
0:34:04 > 0:34:07Why aren't there are demonstrations fighting for these people's rights?
0:34:07 > 0:34:10People just don't care about sex workers.
0:34:10 > 0:34:14You see stories of, for example, transgender people who were killed,
0:34:14 > 0:34:17their heads were cut off,
0:34:17 > 0:34:22their silicones were taken away from their bodies,
0:34:22 > 0:34:26their legs were cut, and thrown to a dustbin.
0:34:26 > 0:34:30Or stabbing a sex worker 200 times.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34But you see the comments on the internet,
0:34:34 > 0:34:36below the news.
0:34:36 > 0:34:37Like, they have this hatred.
0:34:37 > 0:34:41They say that she should not be doing sex work
0:34:41 > 0:34:43if she wants to live.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46These are the stories that we are always facing.
0:34:46 > 0:34:50Most attacks on sex workers either go unreported
0:34:50 > 0:34:54or, Kemal claims, are not taken seriously by the police -
0:34:54 > 0:34:56as he knows from personal experience
0:34:56 > 0:35:00when he was raped by a client in his own home.
0:35:01 > 0:35:04It's obviously a big trauma for me.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06And it's not very easy for me to talk about that.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09Because, like, it was about theft,
0:35:09 > 0:35:11sexual assault.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14Um...
0:35:14 > 0:35:17Forcibly keeping me
0:35:17 > 0:35:20at a place that I didn't want to be.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24The incident happened six months ago,
0:35:24 > 0:35:28when a regular client turned up at Kemal's house with some friends.
0:35:28 > 0:35:32So there were three people. One outside, two inside.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35And I realised that something bad was happening
0:35:35 > 0:35:38- at that time.- One guy raped you? - Yes.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42And while raping, he was always repeating that...
0:35:44 > 0:35:48"So we are three people, and..."
0:35:49 > 0:35:50So bad.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53"So we are three people,
0:35:53 > 0:35:56"and we will come back to your house.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58"You have to give us money."
0:35:58 > 0:36:00I was paralysed, to be honest.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02And I tried to be calm, actually,
0:36:02 > 0:36:05because I know many of my friends died because of that.
0:36:05 > 0:36:09All of them, including the third person,
0:36:09 > 0:36:11told me that they would come to my house,
0:36:11 > 0:36:13they would take my money again, and they would fuck me.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15And I started to cry.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19And I said, "OK, I will give you money."
0:36:21 > 0:36:25So they took me to one of the ATMs.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28But on the way, I saw the lights of the police car.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30I ran towards the police officers.
0:36:30 > 0:36:34The first reaction of the police officer was, "Shut up."
0:36:36 > 0:36:38I was like...
0:36:38 > 0:36:42- I started to cry at that time. - That's what he said?- Yes. "Shut up."
0:36:42 > 0:36:44Like, you've just been violated in your own home,
0:36:44 > 0:36:48and I bet when you saw the police, you couldn't believe your luck.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51Then you approach them and it's more bullshit, you know? It's...
0:36:51 > 0:36:55The perpetrators started to tell the police officers,
0:36:55 > 0:36:58"Look, you are our brother, and you know these faggots,
0:36:58 > 0:37:00"they always tell these things.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03"Yes, we had sex with him,
0:37:03 > 0:37:07"but I mean, he's just telling a lie."
0:37:07 > 0:37:09They don't identify themselves as being gay guys?
0:37:09 > 0:37:11No, not at all.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14They told the police officers, "Look, we are men,
0:37:14 > 0:37:17"and we have families, so you should help us,
0:37:17 > 0:37:19"because we're like you. You are our brother."
0:37:19 > 0:37:21These were the exact words.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27Since the incident, Kemal has brought proceedings
0:37:27 > 0:37:30against all three men and the police.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40After months of waiting,
0:37:40 > 0:37:44today is the first day of the court case against the men he's accused.
0:37:46 > 0:37:47- Oh, gosh.- What's wrong?
0:37:47 > 0:37:49I'm so stressed.
0:37:49 > 0:37:52Listen to me, don't feel stressed.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Remember why you're doing this.
0:37:54 > 0:37:56You're totally capable. You've got this.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00I mean, I spent four months to forget about what happened,
0:38:00 > 0:38:03and now they want me to tell about the details.
0:38:18 > 0:38:19OK.
0:38:21 > 0:38:25Kemal is being supported today by friends and lawyers he works with.
0:38:25 > 0:38:26Hello, how do you do?
0:38:26 > 0:38:30He's in the same situation as many of the sex workers
0:38:30 > 0:38:31he's helped in the past.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35This is such a huge deal.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37He's trying to represent so many sex workers
0:38:37 > 0:38:41who don't have the courage to speak up and say,
0:38:41 > 0:38:44"You know what, I am a sex worker, but I was raped.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46"I didn't ask for this and it's not acceptable.
0:38:46 > 0:38:48"The police haven't taken me seriously.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52"And I'm a human. I deserve respect."
0:38:53 > 0:38:56Although I'm allowed to sit in on the trial,
0:38:56 > 0:38:57the camera has to stay outside.
0:39:04 > 0:39:07But it seems Kemal will still have a long wait for justice.
0:39:11 > 0:39:15The first formal hearing today, it's just been adjourned.
0:39:15 > 0:39:19About two and a half months, the second hearing will continue.
0:39:19 > 0:39:21Kemal, whilst giving evidence,
0:39:21 > 0:39:24was sobbing throughout the entire process.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28The three lads are convinced that they're completely innocent.
0:39:28 > 0:39:29They were shouting, "We are not guilty.
0:39:29 > 0:39:32"If he's so frightened, what's he doing inviting men
0:39:32 > 0:39:34"to his house in the middle of the night?"
0:39:35 > 0:39:37It's like, how realistic is it that
0:39:37 > 0:39:40he's going to get the justice he deserves?
0:39:41 > 0:39:44I caught up with Kemal after he was finished at the court.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Of course, they're struggling with their sexuality
0:39:47 > 0:39:50and they're not out. They don't want to be out,
0:39:50 > 0:39:53because they don't accept themselves as being gay.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57Many of the clients that come to us act as gay,
0:39:57 > 0:39:59but when they go back to their house,
0:39:59 > 0:40:02they act as the husband of their wives
0:40:02 > 0:40:04or the father of their children
0:40:04 > 0:40:06in a very heterosexual way.
0:40:07 > 0:40:09And I... Sometimes I feel pity for them.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13You've been through so much.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15Will you be returning to sex work?
0:40:15 > 0:40:17I may go back.
0:40:18 > 0:40:21Because you want to? Because you have to?
0:40:21 > 0:40:23It's not about money only,
0:40:23 > 0:40:27because I remember myself doing translations for money,
0:40:27 > 0:40:30which is really, like, mind-fucking.
0:40:30 > 0:40:33I mean, I would prefer to do sex work to a certain level
0:40:33 > 0:40:36compared to doing translation, to be honest.
0:40:36 > 0:40:37- Really?- Yes.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41But not now, because psychologically I'm not ready.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43Right, leave you to it.
0:40:44 > 0:40:46Take care.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48I am shocked that despite all he's been through,
0:40:48 > 0:40:51Kemal might well return to sex work.
0:41:00 > 0:41:02Derya feels she has no choice.
0:41:02 > 0:41:04She needs to do the work to pay her bills.
0:41:18 > 0:41:21But there's another group of sex workers in Turkey
0:41:21 > 0:41:25who are even lower on the pecking order than transsexuals.
0:41:28 > 0:41:32They have no rights, no support, and barely make ends meet.
0:41:33 > 0:41:36Those are the women from war-torn Syria.
0:41:37 > 0:41:42So far, at least three million Syrian refugees have entered Turkey,
0:41:42 > 0:41:47and a large number have settled in a rundown area of Istanbul.
0:41:48 > 0:41:52This has become a small ghetto of Syrian refugees.
0:41:52 > 0:41:54A lot of desperate people here
0:41:54 > 0:41:56with little or no help from the state.
0:41:58 > 0:41:59I've got nothing, darling.
0:42:01 > 0:42:03HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
0:42:04 > 0:42:06I promise you, nothing.
0:42:07 > 0:42:08Money, money.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14Although Turkey has offered them a life free from war,
0:42:14 > 0:42:18their struggle continues through the discrimination they face.
0:42:18 > 0:42:19INAUDIBLE
0:42:21 > 0:42:23Hello, baby. I haven't got anything.
0:42:23 > 0:42:24Sorry.
0:42:29 > 0:42:30With no legitimate income,
0:42:30 > 0:42:33they're forced to live in squalor
0:42:33 > 0:42:36in houses that are illegal and condemned.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39You've got to try and imagine where these people have come from
0:42:39 > 0:42:42for this neighbourhood to now be so appealing.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45It's like, the buildings could collapse at any moment.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47The kids are hungry. It's filthy.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49But in all honesty, these people here,
0:42:49 > 0:42:51they see themselves as the lucky ones,
0:42:51 > 0:42:54because it sure beats still being in Syria,
0:42:54 > 0:42:56frightened that you're going to get killed,
0:42:56 > 0:42:58or being in camps near the border.
0:43:05 > 0:43:09I've arranged to speak to a 35-year-old woman from Aleppo,
0:43:09 > 0:43:11a city devastated by war.
0:43:11 > 0:43:16She fled with her three children and husband, who is too ill to work.
0:43:16 > 0:43:18If she can't make enough begging,
0:43:18 > 0:43:22she feels her only choice is to sell herself for sex.
0:43:22 > 0:43:25She's agreed to tell me her story in a hotel close by.
0:43:26 > 0:43:27It's getting cold.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30Have you got some money? You've got some?
0:43:32 > 0:43:34But as we take a short cut through a market,
0:43:34 > 0:43:37I discover first-hand the sort of discrimination
0:43:37 > 0:43:40that many refugees face on a daily basis.
0:43:42 > 0:43:44What's the problem?
0:43:45 > 0:43:46What's the problem?
0:43:48 > 0:43:51- This problem?- Yes. - You mean my friend?
0:43:52 > 0:43:53Why won't you let her in?
0:43:53 > 0:43:55Listen, we don't want any trouble.
0:43:55 > 0:43:57She's not going to cause any...
0:43:58 > 0:43:59STACEY COUGHS
0:44:00 > 0:44:03He's just sprayed me in my mouth with something.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05Someone has just sprayed me in the mouth,
0:44:05 > 0:44:07and they've put something in her mouth.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09Sorry, not for you.
0:44:09 > 0:44:10SHE SHOUTS ANGRILY
0:44:10 > 0:44:12You need to calm down.
0:44:12 > 0:44:13Listen, I'm not having it.
0:44:13 > 0:44:16The issue is, you guys are all racist.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19They have issues because she's Syrian.
0:44:19 > 0:44:21It's racist behaviour.
0:44:21 > 0:44:23And it's totally unacceptable.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31Let's go. Let's go.
0:44:31 > 0:44:35This is all you can get. You know, do you want to kill all your film?
0:44:35 > 0:44:38- No, I don't.- We have to go. We have to go quickly, listen to me.
0:44:38 > 0:44:41- But it's fucking so unacceptable. They're racist fucks.- Yeah.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44- What did he say? Why did they spray me?- He said they spit on the woman
0:44:44 > 0:44:47because they're thinking that she was a beggar.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50But they sprayed something in my face. I couldn't breathe.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53They are, I think...
0:44:54 > 0:44:57..both racist and also very religiously conservative guys.
0:45:11 > 0:45:13Ah, come on.
0:45:14 > 0:45:15You OK?
0:45:17 > 0:45:20Fatima has been living here for 18 months.
0:45:20 > 0:45:24She paid traffickers to walk across the Syria-Turkey border
0:45:24 > 0:45:27after Isis destroyed her home.
0:45:37 > 0:45:41Fatima's in her 30s, and I've seen the face beneath the veil.
0:45:41 > 0:45:43She looks a lot younger than she sounds.
0:45:43 > 0:45:46Once she starts telling me her story, I understand why.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03SHE CRIES
0:46:43 > 0:46:45When you were in Syria,
0:46:45 > 0:46:48you had never before been a sex worker?
0:46:51 > 0:46:54Does your husband know how you're making money?
0:47:04 > 0:47:08And how many guys are you having to sleep with a night
0:47:08 > 0:47:12to make sure that you can feed your husband and the kids have got food?
0:47:16 > 0:47:19Before you had to start selling yourself,
0:47:19 > 0:47:23had you ever been intimate with another man other than your husband?
0:47:43 > 0:47:46I mean, she's hysterical, understandably.
0:47:48 > 0:47:51She's traumatised. How could she not be?
0:47:52 > 0:47:55It's like, how any one person
0:47:55 > 0:47:58can go through what she's had to is beyond me.
0:48:00 > 0:48:04You can't begin to imagine. It's...
0:48:04 > 0:48:07an existence for her now.
0:48:12 > 0:48:14But a really bleak one.
0:48:32 > 0:48:35With the Syrian crisis raging on next door,
0:48:35 > 0:48:39the Turkish people have voted in their general election.
0:48:43 > 0:48:46They've put the AKP in charge,
0:48:46 > 0:48:48a hardline Islamic party
0:48:48 > 0:48:50who won a clear majority.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58- NEWSREADER:- In Ankara, supporters of the ruling party
0:48:58 > 0:49:01took to the streets claiming an unexpected victory.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05Wow. It was an unexpected victory.
0:49:05 > 0:49:09The AK Party will now single-handedly rule the country.
0:49:11 > 0:49:13Which...
0:49:13 > 0:49:17for a lot of sex workers here, that was their worst case scenario,
0:49:17 > 0:49:18in their words.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23That was the last thing they wanted to happen.
0:49:23 > 0:49:25The President and the party he founded
0:49:25 > 0:49:27had a very simple message:
0:49:27 > 0:49:29"It's us or chaos."
0:49:31 > 0:49:34It's not good news for the people I've spent time with.