Bulent Ersoy Turkey's Transsexual Turk and diva of the stage has been accused by the Turkish authorities of anti Turkishness
on the issue of Bulent Ersoy's attitude to the Military. Ms Ersoy
is facing a 4 and a half year jail sentence accused of undermining support for the military ... the Istanbul Prosecutor charged Bulent Ersoy as follows ...
he is seen to /turn the public against military service/which means Ms Ersoy is held under
Article 318 of Penal Code. Every Turk is born a soldier ... so the story goes ... Her words upset 70 million people ...
On the other side Free Speech activists argue that Article 301 /makes it a crime to insult the Turkish System ... /we won't fight ... we won't die ... we are a heroic nation/ Such arrests and prosecutions could put the frightners on others of like mind who do not share the Military's point of view on the issue of the war and I assume its probably the Iraq War they are concentrating upon . though here in the UK there is a lot of talk about Afghanistan. One Turkish commentor referred to herein - has a family tradition in the Military and offered to send his grandson ... and go as well if required to the "front line". In fact it falls in line with a lot of talk here in the UK ... about fighting on the side of the military. In fact Our Engineer only likes one of my poems .. Under The Sod . which is about War and thus he deemed me a War Poet .. true, too true and very true. Human Rights for all ... thanks BBC of Istanbul for the blog re Turkish blog USA ...