Inside sex-fuelled Mediterranean holiday hotspot where randy Brit women aged 20-70 romp day & night – then troll rivals
A Facebook group has emerged naming and shaming women getting involved with local Turkish men

“BUY one drink, get me free,” a hot barman says with a wink as I stroll down the party strip on a Friday night.

It’s a standard line here, and from what I’ve seen, it certainly rings true.

In the UK female dancers and bar staff are the norm.

But in Marmaris, Turkey, every beach bar showcases buff, young male staff who are topless, oiled up and putting on sexy performances for pleasure-seekers, including thousands of Brits.

The holiday hotspot has surged in popularity among British women, many from the younger crowd, with throngs jetting out each summer in search of a steamy beach romance.

Yet some getting involved with local men have found themselves being shamed online.

“It’s Thailand for women,” says a laughing Katie Rees. “I’ve had a one- night stand with Omar. I know he’s got about ten different women on the go but I’m just here for fun.

“We love Turkish guys because they’re tall, dark and handsome and they’re better in bed. Sorry to all the Welsh boys back home.”

Katie, a 22-year-old support worker from South Wales, is enjoying a holiday with her friend Ffion Cooper, 23, a hairdresser from Cardiff.

Omar is a good-looking barman at Tigers Tavern, one of the hottest spots on the strip. He laughs as he recounts leaving a “giant bite mark” on Katie’s bum.

When I ask him if he has broken many hearts this summer, a smirk tugs at the corners of his mouth.

Katie playfully chimes in: “I might break his heart.” Omar replies: “I haven’t got a heart to break.”

Serial love rats

With female tourists clamouring for the attention of the local beach boys, a Facebook group has emerged naming and shaming them.

The group, with more than 16,000 members, operates without any official admin, making it a chaotic “wild west”.

The page is inundated every day with defamatory posts about British women accused of “stealing” Turkish men, accompanied by warnings and photos of alleged serial love rats.

Some of the content is so explicit and controversial that we cannot repeat it here.

Cheryl Farnan-Jones, 39, who moved from Saddleworth, Greater Manchester, to Marmaris in 2018, told me she had been posted in the group.

“I felt sick to my stomach,” she recalls. “There was a picture of me captioned, ‘About time this vile old cow was outed for the scheming tart she is buying Turks’, accompanied by several sick emojis.

The former nurse and mother of one, who works for a UK-based market research company, began dating Imam Sakaroğlu, 36, two years ago.

Over the past six weeks the pair have been horrendously trolled on the Facebook group, which we are not naming.

Imam, who runs popular bar Salt N Pepa, had a “couple of one-night stands” with a British woman he believes is behind the posts.

Cheryl says: “It makes me angry, because how dare she speak about me like that. She doesn’t even know me, it’s pure jealousy.

“I’ve asked her to message me if she wants to speak to me like an adult, rather than post on there. She replied, ‘How dare you get into my inbox, you slag’.”

The false accusations include that Cheryl is “addicted” to Imam, she pays him for sex and has slept ‘with the whole of Marmaris’.

But if Cheryl thought things couldn’t get any worse, she was wrong. “They posted a picture of me, my daughter and my mum saying we were fleecing old grannies through our Turkish lovers,” she explains.

“It’s one thing trolling me, but leave my daughter and my mum out of it. How sick do you have to be to do that?”

Imam said: “It is a big problem. She is jealous and she wants to cause problems and drama.

“And you can’t stop her. She goes crazy.”

The pair have contacted Facebook in an effort to try to get the woman to stop.

Cheryl added: “Despite her efforts to tear us apart, the abuse has actually made us stronger. But I think the page should be closed down. It’s ruining lives.”

Outside Tigers Tavern — frequently mentioned in the Facebook group for its notorious “Tiger Boys” workers — I meet the owner, Mehmet Can Korkmaz, 27, and ask if he is familiar with the group and his staff breaking hearts.

He says with a laugh: “When people come here we are nice to them, we give them attention, when they want something more we say, ‘No, we have a girlfriend’.

“Some women take it well and say OK and others will try to make you leave (your girlfriend).”

Last updated on September 13th, 2024 at 09:56 pm