By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
Last Updated: 10:37PM BST 27/05/2008
Sailors on a Royal Navy aircraft carrier have been reprimanded over a drunken cross-dressing party in Istanbul the day after the Queen and the Turkish president had made an official visit to the ship.
Pictures of male and female ratings from HMS Illustrious groping each other, exposing themselves and simulating sex appeared in a Turkish newspaper, which suggested that the "disgusting" antics had shamed Britain.
Locals who witnessed the private party in the largely Muslim country claimed some of the crew members had "made love to each other in the street" while others had to be carried back on board.
Less than 24 hours earlier the 22,000 ton carrier, appropriately nicknamed HMS Lusty, had been the venue for a prestigious reception for 350 Turkish dignitaries, welcomed aboard by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during the monarch’s state visit earlier this month.
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