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ANKARA, Turkey — A popular transsexual Turkish singer went on trial Wednesday on charges of trying to turn the public against military service. Bulent Ersoy could face more than two years in prison for saying during a live television show that if she had children, she would not want them to join the army to fight Kurdish rebels.
Military service is obligatory for men older than 20, and it is a crime to speak against it.
Ersoy, who underwent a sex-change operation in 1981 to become a woman, is one of Turkey’s best-loved singers.
