Sex industry

A transgender sex worker has been shot dead by an off-duty police officer, while two other people were injured in the Aegean province of İzmir.

Some 40,000 conscripts have been so far given a training on violence against women in a bid to raise their awareness regarding this issue, said an official of the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services.

Vulnerable refugee boys in Greece are selling sex to get by and some are the using that money to buy sex from women in what was described as a "shocking" cycle of abuse by a charity, according to a reports by the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Friday.

A female sex worker in the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne has rented a house and hired a caretaker for her cats, days after the owners of the legal brothel she worked fired all of them. Click through for the story in photos...

Two brothels in southern Turkey will be managed by trustees following a recent court ruling. 

Three sex workers in the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne have filed a criminal complaint against the owners of a legal brothel for dismissing them for feeding stray cats. 

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that legal protections on privacy rights do not cover prostitutes because "accepting prostitution as a profession would be against human dignity."

The Greek police's organized crime and human trafficking unit has dismantled a large-scale operation that exploited migrant women, forcing them to work as prostitutes.

In a coordinated operation in Athens, in the southwest Peloponnese and on the holiday island of Myconos, police arrested 13 suspects, while arrest warrants have been issued for another 12.

The number of women engaging in prostitution has been on the rise in recent years, according to a study by Athens's Panteion University, which also found a marked increase in the number of customers.

According to the results of the research, the rise in prostitution began after 2010, coinciding with the social and cultural implications of Greece's financial and migration crisis.

The fans of the XXL industry have certainly heard the name of one of the most attractive erotic stars - Amy Reid. The red-haired beauty not only has millions of fans of both sexes around the world, but also boasts five awards in the industry - from the FAME Award (2007) to the AVN Award (2007, 2010) plus 11 nominations.