The first arrests were made in response to the public reaction to prostitution business cards distributed in busy streets and squares in the capital. Two suspects were taken into custody on suspicion of distributing prostitution business cards in Ankara, and a judicial arrest decision was made against them.
DESTROY THE SWAMP!
The authorities, who kept silent for a long time, took the first correct step in the face of the mass pressures of the people and the Milli Gazete, finally two business card distributors arrested. We hope that this is not the end, this decision should not be taken as a fly catch in the swamp, but should be expanded by the drying of the swamp.
FINALLY A STEP TAKEN
For the prostitution business cards that citizens have protested for months with banners and sweeping actions, the Milli Gazete has carried it into the agenda of the country with persistent headlines. Two suspects were taken into custody on suspicion of distributing prostitution business cards in Ankara, and a judicial arrest decision was made against them.
The Ankara Security Directorate of Ethics Bureau chiefs detained two persons identified as distributing prostitution business cards around the Kizilay. These people were brought to the Ankara Court of Justice after their safe procedures. The suspects were referred to the Sentencing Criminal Court by the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office on the request of "arrest". Ankara 8. Criminal Criminal Judge Yunus Süer decided that the suspects questioned should be arrested on charges of "distributing products containing images, texts and words prepared to facilitate the prostitution". The prosecution may sue the suspects on charges of "distributing products containing images, texts and lyrics prepared to facilitate prostitution" on the grounds of the investigation.
It opened the way of Imprisonment
On 24th of November 2016, a legal arrangement was made in the Parliament on the demand for "effective struggle" by various groups of society regarding prostitution business cards which are frequently seen on streets in recent years. On 24 November 2016, Article 227 titled "prostitution" of the Turkish Criminal Code "A person who gives, distributes or distributes products containing images, texts and words prepared for intermediation shall be punished by imprisonment from one year to three years and from two hundred days up to two thousand days."
'Obscenity on prostitution cards'
Before the change was made, the teams fighting the prostitution card distributors were able to act on the charge of "prostitution mediation and obscenity" about the persons dispatching the cards, the instructions of the public prosecutor about the persons dispatching the business cards, In some cases, judicial authorities, noting that it was not a crime to distribute business cards, did not proceed with administrative proceedings on suspects or suspects, so the suspects in the police teams were being treated according to the Law on Misdemeanors and administrative fines were imposed on suspects.