So get this, a 24-year-old friend of mine wanted to go to Turkey on vacation this month. She bought her ticket. She packed her things, and got on the plane. A couple of men came up to her and told her to get off the plane. They took 15 young girls off and asked where they were going and why. She said she was going to visit friends. They said they didn't believe her. They asked her where her parents are. Why aren't they traveling with you? This girl works as a waitress in a restaurant in the capitol and though lives with her parents, she doesn't depend on them, say, to accompany her on a vacation as if she were 12 years old. The took all those 15 single women and told them to go home. They were not allowed to leave. Where were their husbands? Without husbands they were assumed to be prostitutes. Of course we don't want to give people in other places the impression that starving poor girls from Turkmenistan may prostitue themselves. Where were their parents? Where was her freedom to legally purchase and plane ticket and leave the country. . .
There are prostitues everywhere here. Everywhere. The cost an average of 2-4$. People in poor places need money. Uneducated men "have their own needs". This girl, however, has a job, has money, and wanted to take a vacation. Solve the problems in your own bars and discos before worrying about the girl on vacation. We're so scared that we don't have total control of all our people--that we need to keep them right here where we can see them.
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