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Turkey's Anti-War Diva

Started by Shana A, February 29, 2008, 06:52:59 AM

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February 29, 2008, 06:52:59 AM
Turkey's Anti-War Diva
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008 By PELIN TURGUT/ISTANBUL

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1718039,00.html

Better known for her tabloid love affairs, plastic surgery and husky voice, transsexual Turkish diva Bulent Ersoy makes the unlikeliest political activist. Yet she has caused a storm of outrage by becoming the only public personality to speak out against Turkey's invasion of northern Iraq. So pervasive is the nationalist climate that Ersoy has been vilified for declaring — on a national TV equivalent of American Idol, where she is a judge — that if she had a son, she would not have sent him to fight this war. She is now under investigation for being "anti-military".
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