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Moon said his client has an audio recording of her alleged interaction with a politician, and has been told the hotel in Ankara, Turkey, has security video showing a man entering her room.

However, it seems as if her case has “withered on the vine,” leaving the woman wondering why.

“Everybody knows about it and everybody knows about what evidence there is, and nobody is doing anything about it,” he said. “She is just twisting in the wind … I’m profoundly disappointed.”

Moon asked that the woman’s name not be published. There is an automatic ban on revealing the identity of sexual-assault complainants if and when actual charges are laid.

Meanwhile, she may face a more fundamental obstacle in having her complaint considered.

With some limited exceptions — such as sexual abuse of children abroad — Canadian law does not allow prosecution of crimes that occurred in other countries, says Janine Benedet, a criminal law professor and sexual-offences expert at the University of British Columbia.

“It would be up to the Turkish criminal justice system,” she said.

Because the incident did take place out of the country … there isn’t anything else we can do

However, the woman was advised by officials at the Canadian embassy in Ankara to not go to Turkish police and wait until she got home to report her allegations, says Badar Shamin, a businessman who was part of the trade mission organized by the Canada-Turkey Business Council. He told the National Post earlier this week the woman talked to him about the alleged incident the morning after it purportedly happened.