FEATURE - Turkey's transsexuals face increasing violence

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Belgin still vividly remembers the night, more than a quarter of a century ago, when police herded her and dozens of other transsexuals and transvestites on to a train as part of a campaign to clean up Istanbul. 

"We did not know where the train was taking us. The police beat us and locked us up in the wagons. They gave us no water or food," she said, evoking scenes reminiscent of World War Two.