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				Bakery-Turned-Brothel Targeted
			 
 (submitted by gekkogecko)
 Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
 
 ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A small bomb exploded on Tuesday
 at a bakery that was moonlighting as a brothel in
 southern Turkey but no one was hurt, police said.
 
 Authorities had closed the bakery a week ago for
 soliciting, but the shop re-opened after a local court
 ruling, a policewoman told Reuters. The shop's windows
 were broken in the explosion but it suffered little
 other damage.
 
 "It's still just a theory, but it appears the blast is
 connected to the prostitution," another official said.
 
 Prostitution is legal only in Muslim Turkey's many
 state-controlled brothels. Thousands of foreign
 nationals, mainly from former Soviet states, work in
 an illicit skin trade in cities and resort areas.
 
 But religious tradition in conservative parts of the
 country has led to outrage, even mass street
 demonstrations, against women suspected of
 prostitution.
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