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.