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Sex workers in Turkey want to stay open for business

seeney/wallisMay 5, 2013

In Turkey, a storm is brewing over state run brothels. They've existed there since before the creation of the secular state in Turkey nearly 90 years ago. But many are now against the brothels, and the Islamic influenced AK governing party has started closing some of them. That's prompted protests from sex workers who rely on the brothels for their livelihoods. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul.

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