Oh God, that's freaking awful, my urbane gentility left just reading about it  happening to you! Yikes, I can't say I ever had Turkey near the top (or actually even on) my list of places to visit, but it certainly won't be there now. 
Howie would be livid in a situation like that. In his younger days he probably would have been put in a cell after decking one of the nose picking dicks, er, policemen.