Turkey 🇹🇷

Country District Guide

Turkey maintains a secularly regulated ('Kemalist') adult industry, legally confining prostitution completely within licensed, state-mandated brothels (Genelevs). Enforced profoundly through Article 227 of the Penal Code, sex workers working within these approved zones receive state health checks and security. However, obtaining new licenses has become practically impossible under current administrations, forcing massive numbers of independent workers into an illegal, heavily prosecuted black market.