Samovars and Sex on Turkey's Russian Markets

Women and fundamentalism in Northeast Turkey

“…Their impressive level of education, religious and secular, is also seen as unattainable. 9 In some ways their message concerning covering is more readily accepted nowadays, against the background of virtually uncensored television programmes and the emergence, for the first 44 • WOMEN: A CULTURAL REVIEW time in this area, of prostitution-in the form of sex tourism exploiting impoverished women from the former Soviet Union (see Hann and Hann 1992). A political meeting in June 1992 organized by the Welfare Party (Refah Partisi) was attended by several dozen women dressed in çarsaf.…”

Introduction

“…Th ese early fl ows were oft en organized as tourist groups equipped with group visas and assisted by travel guides, who also functioned as intermediaries between the "tourists" and customs offi cials. For the whole Black Sea region, Turkey, and Istanbul in particular, became a main destination of "trader tourism" (see Hann and Hann 1992;Konstantinov 1996;Konstantinov et al 1998). Th e Soviets, who had little money to invest in the cross-border trade with Turkey, created their fi rst profi ts by selling Soviet ironware (nails, spades, irons, etc.)…”

‘Protecting the national body’: regulating the practice and the place of prostitution in early republican Turkey

“…Our examination of prostitution in Turkey during the 1920s and 1930s establishes a case for contrast as it pertains geopolitically to an emergent nation-state that sought to distinguish itself both from an imperial past 4 and as a modernist republic that ostensibly championed the rights of its women. Moreover, there are numerous works that engage with more contemporary manifestations of prostitution as a matter of human rights in terms of both the domestic population (Anti-Slavery International 1993;S ims ek et al 2003) and migrant sex workers (Hann and Hann 1992;Beller-Hann 1995;Gülc ür and İlkkaracan 2002;Bloch 2003;Erder and Kaska 2003). 6 Within the broader literature on Turkey and the Middle East, there are some published works on prostitution and on the emergence of its regulation in the late Ottoman context, often specific spatially to just Istanbul or ethnically to particular groups (Toprak 1987;Ö zbek 2010;Sariyannis 2008;Wyers 2008Wyers , 2012Bali 2008).…”