'Swinger gang' members get up to 33 years in jail in Turkey's Adana

A court in the southern province of Adana has given jail sentences of between two and 33 years to 19 convicts for "establishing a criminal organization," "membership of a criminal organization," and "vulgarity and prostitution" Doğan News Agency has reported.  

Ten of the 29 suspects tried in the case were acquitted in the hearing on Feb. 27.

The court ordered at least 33 years in jail for one suspect identified only by the initials E.Ş., convicted as the leader of the gang and also fined 65,200 Turkish Liras.

The 18 other suspects were sentenced to between two and 13 years in jail and fined between 4,000 and 28,600 liras. 

The case was opened after the Adana Police Department started to monitor a young couple reaching people on social media and asking them to prostitute themselves on February 2016. 

The investigation revealed that the couple had rented a luxury villa in Adana's Sarıçam district, where they organized supposed "swinger parties" for married couples living in neighboring cities. The young couple first connected couples to "live out their fantasies" before making the women they contacted on social media serve single men at the villa, as well as married couples.

The suspects claimed that they were not aware of any money changing hands, assuming that the young couple was simply organizing legal swinger parties.

However, one married woman who was later released said she accepted payment to take part in the scheme because her father needed money.