Nine young Turkish women thought they were part of a "Big Brother" reality show, but in fact had been tricked and locked up at a resort villa while the perpetrators allegedly sold their images on the Internet.
The nine were freed when Turkish military stormed the resort villa near Istabul on Monday. Britain's Sky News reports that the women knew something was wrong when the show failed to follow the usual format of putting them through tests and kicking some of them out of the house.
Sky News says that when the women demanded to be released, they were told they would first have to pay around $30,000 fine.
The private Dogan news agency in Turkey says the women had responded to an ad saying the show would be broadcast on a major Turkish TV station and had to sign a contract stipulating they could have no contact with their families or the outside world.
HaberTurk newspaper, quoting a person identified as the mother of one of the women, says the nine were not abused or harassed sexually, but were told to fight each other and to wear bikinis and dance by the villa's pool.
There were conflicting reports by Turkish media on how the authorities were tipped off. One says family members became concerned and called police, while another says one of the women was able to get word to a family member about their plight.
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