Turkish military police freed nine women who were fooled into thinking that they were the subjects of a reality TV show and locked in an Istanbul villa.
According to a military police spokesman, the women were filmed 24-hours a day, and the images streamed to users of a paid Internet site. After answering an advertisement to appear on a “Big Brother”-style reality show, the women had to pass a selection and audition process. They were then confined in the villa for two months.
The spokesman explained:
The women’s parents called the police after they didn’t hear anything from them. The military police went to investigate and heard the women screaming from inside,” the spokesman said, adding the raid took place Monday.
Sources in the Turkish media claim that the women signed a contract in which they agreed that they would not contact their families and that they would pay a fine of 50,000 lira if they left early.
Three men are currently being detained while an investigation is underway.
Hilmi Tufan Caki, a lawyer for bizevdeyiz.tv responded to the accusations:
It is very sad for my client to have been the target of such accusations. The girls had known that this was a competition designed by the internet service Weareathome TV (bizevdeyiz.tv) and were taken to the house under the terms of the contract that they willingly signed.
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