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A BRITISH mum on holiday in Turkey was breathalysed after telling police she’d been raped.

She was on a fun break with her daughter, 20, and says she was attacked by a barman who had chatted her up.

Now she is devastated because a judge did not believe her account.

The traumatised woman, 48, who cannot be named for legal reasons, says she was lured into a trap by the man on a night out in the resort of Marmaris – popular with British sun-seekers.

A judge rejected her case because CCTV showed her holding hands with the man and kissing him in the street.

The mum and daughter have decided to warn of the dangers at the resort, where there have been a series of reported sex attacks on Brits.

Among the alleged assailants are bikers, taxi drivers and a masseur.

The mother, who we are calling Rachel, said: “Our experience with the police was almost worse than being raped. There was no sympathy, no compassion and it was a full day before they examined me, by which time the evidence had gone in the shower.”

She said: “They treated us like dirt – as if we were the ones who had committed a crime.”

Terror

The women were on the second night of their Thomas Cook holiday in May when they started chatting to workers in the town’s notorious Bar Street.

Rachel had asked a friendly barman where they could find a good Turkish kebab. She said: “He was making us laugh. I was flattered by the attention and found it funny he was coming on to me and flirted back for a bit of fun.”

The man who was wearing the bar’s T-shirt offered to show them a place at the end of his shift.

Rachel said: “We had no reason not to trust him. He was a member of staff at the bar. Why would he do anything when we knew where he worked?

“Five minutes later he came to get us and we left with two of his pals, who were also wearing the bar’s T-shirt.

“I was holding the guy’s hand and we were all laughing together. It was just a bit of innocent fun. The barman and I even had a cheeky kiss.”

But instead of taking them to a kebab shop, the men led the women to a row of shops with apartments above.

When Rachel asked about the food one man said: “Why don’t you go and wait upstairs in my friend’s apartment and I’ll bring you the food?”

Rachel said: “That’s when I started to panic and wonder if I’d made a really bad mistake going with these guys.”

She said no and that they were going to call a taxi but before they could escape a man grabbed Rachel’s bag.

He ran up stairs into the building and she chased him. The handbag contained all their holiday money and both passports. Rachel said: “I couldn’t let him get away. I followed him up the stairwell and on every landing he’d stop and dangle the bag at me.”

Near the top he went into an apartment and she followed him into a small, dark room.

She said: “The next thing I knew he had pushed me back on to a bed and began to force himself on me.

“I yelled at him to get off me and tried to struggle but he was too strong. He kept telling me to be quiet and I was scared that he might get angry and beat me or even kill me, so I gave up.

“I was almost frozen with terror. I just wanted it to be over as soon as possible so I could get back outside and check my daughter was OK. She was down there by herself.”

Five minutes later her attacker let her go. Shaking and in tears, she grabbed her bag and fled down the stairs but lost her footing and fell to the bottom, hurting her leg.

She said: “It was bleeding and painful, but I had to get to my daughter.”

Her girl was in tears, the two other men had been trying to drag her off the bench and snatch her phone.

All three men ran off but no one wanted to help the women. Rachel said: