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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police said on Monday they drove stone-throwing transvestites away from a minister’s home after the gang tried to rob his son late on Saturday.

The Hurriyet newspaper said a group of transvestites accosted the son of sports minister Fikret Unlu as he parked his car near the family’s Ankara residence.

They demanded he give them 50 million lira ($42) or face being shamed in front of his neighbors.

The group of cross-dressers threw beer bottles and stones at the Unlu home as the minister’s bodyguards intervened, an Ankara police spokesman told Reuters.

The paper said the group used their mobile telephones to call in other transvestites to join the fray before police drove them away.

Two people, one of them transsexual, have been detained in connection with the incident, the police spokesman said.

Turkey’s larger cities have active transvestite scenes, in which men visit bars filled with young cross-dressers — many of them in various stages of sex-change therapy — and hire them for sex.

Confrontations between police and transvestites in Istanbul and Ankara are not uncommon, particularly as summer nears and nightlife spills over onto the streets.