Agency horror story - Shakir or Damanagement in Istanbul

Don't think that sexual predators limit themselves to young female models!

Shakir or Damanagement in Istanbul is a pervert. He lured guys into his agency by promising the world, only to confiscate your passport and threaten to report you or kick you out of his agency unless you go to his house (alone late at night). Also, if you want an editorial or a well paying job he will organise it only in exchange for sexual compensation. He has previously ruined the reputations of numerous agencies in turkey with these actions. So please, if you want to go to Turkey there are some very good agencies and very good jobs but make sure you get a word of mouth recommendation. Try and find their models through their facebook page and contact the, to see if they are happy.

There is nothing more frightening for anyone than to be trapped in a foreign country where English is barely spoken, have your passport taken and be bribed into sexual favours! I suggest keep your passport very well guarded in any country and get out at the first sign on discomfort.

Most models are working illegally in turkey and therefore they do not have to honour their contract, and neither do you or they get fined for employing foreigners with out a permit.

Anyone who has experienced this type of sexual assault, I urge you to write to the consulate in your home country and report it!

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Trendy model management (Istanbul)

Never send models to Trendy model management in Turkey. They dont pay the models and they dont pay MAC, they still owe money to one of our models and our commission for 4 models, I dont think they will ever pay


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Serdar Sarica

Beste mensen,

Ik heb gehoord dat mijn naam werd gebruikt bij de site van nextmodelsmanagement istanbul. Ik heb met Serdar Sarica paar maanden gewerkt (nooit ontmoet) binnen 4 maanden ben ik achter gekomen dat hij een grote oplichter is in istanbul. Alle beloftes wat hij noemde nooit nagekomen. Ik heb zelf vliegtickets van 2 modellen betaald maar nooit die bedragen terug ontvangen. Gelukkig geen andere rare dingen gebeurd. Hij gebruikt nog steeds mijn naam op een van hem website. Hij is niet meer bereiken met tel of mail adres. Ik raad niemand samen met hem te werken. Hij is niet gevaarlijk maar wel een oplichter. 

Met vriendelijke groeten,

 

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Name : George Carter Labels

George carter labels : he was the director of the agency SUM in Jakarta , we booked a model with them under guarantee contract. When the 3months were almost ending the agency informed us that they didn’t want to pay the guarantee to the model ‘cause she had jobs and they believed that the guarantee should have been paid only if the model didn’t do any job……NO COMMENT …. We explained how a guarantee contract works and when the model left they gave her 2/3 of the guarantee and they promised to send her the rest by western union after 1 month…this never happened…..

Now George works for another agency in Jakarta , the name should be HITZ Management.

So I wanted to warn you on both this men and SUM I suggest you don’t send models to them ‘cause they are not serious.

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Cosmopolitan Models Istanbul

Dear John..Appreciate a lot your work and your intention to help agencies and models with this page on Facebook.İ want worn all the model agencies and models from all over the world about Metropolitan Model Agency from İstanbul-Turkey(ex Cosmo models,ex Next Models).İs my moral obligation to make this.Owner of this ''new''agency is Serdar Sarica,a very dangerous person and a native cheetor.First time he found Cosmo Models,after that Next Models İstanbul and now changed in Metropolitan Models.Every time he found rich partners from his entourage,with the promise that he will ''give ''them models as girlfriends.To bring model, he promise guaranteed contracts for models and big amounts as commission to agencies.Sure that anytime that contracts was not respected,and every time models returned without any money in their country,and mother agencies had a lot of problems.He forced a Czech model to become girlfriend to his partner,and he took her passport and mobile phone for almost 1 week.İmagine what she lived in that 7 days..This person,Serdar Sarica is a really public and social danger,and somebody must stop him finally.

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Joy Models Istanbul ex Next Models ex Cosmo Models

Hello There,

Do not work with Joy Models Istanbul it's just the same owner of Next Models (just closed) and same owner of Cosmo Models (ex Next Models) Serdar the owner is opening new agencies and using a fake email to contact models and agencies so they can't recognize him. What he does is to get models and not pay them and the mother agencies and then once the name of his agency gets bad as Cosmo Models and Next Models he close it and opens a new one. So if you know already how bad Cosmo models and Next Models are do not work with Joy Models Istanbul. This guy is a cheater and very dishonest.



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Next Models Istanbul

Hello there,

İ worked with Next Models Turkey and it was a terible experience.More of the girls was treated as slaves,worked a lot,and finally was sended home without money,not even agencies commission.

 

http://www.nextmodelmgmt.com/

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