TURKEY PROSTITUTION POLICIES

Prostitution: Legal

Requires registering and attending clinics for regular examinations. Must carry identity card indicating the dates of his or health checks. Health checks can be as often as twice a week. Sexworkers cannot be married and their children are barred from occupying high rank in the army or police, or marrying persons of such rank, although

they can work in other areas of government service.

Brothel Ownership: Limited Legality

Officials brothels in Turkey are state-run. The Turkish penal code states that it is illegal to shelter a person for prostitution.

Pimping: Illegal

UNITES STATES PROSTITUTION POLICIES

Prostitution: Limited legality

Illegal except for 11 rural counties in Nevada, where registration and health checks are required.

Indoor prostitution became legal in Rhode Island in 1980 due to an international legal loophole created by legislators. The state enacted

new legislation closing the loophole on Nov. 3, 2009.

Brothel: Illegal

Illegal except for 11 rural counties in Nevada.

Pimping: Illegal

TURKEY WOMEN ATTIRE

AMERICAN WOMEN ATTIRE

STATS FROM WOMEN OF OUR WORLD 2005

Women as % of Nonfarm Wage Earners, 2001-02 Turkey

21United States

49

Women as % of Parliament, 2004

Turkey 4

United States

14

H O U S E H O L D C H O R E S

UNITED STATES TURKEY

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