{"id":16059,"date":"2012-03-26T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16059"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:40:15","slug":"how-to-avoid-military-service-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-avoid-military-service-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid military service in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prove you are a homosexual.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/story\/2012\/03\/26\/turkey-gays-army.html?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gay men in Turkey seeking exemption from the country&#8217;s mandatory military service must prove their homosexuality, the BBC reports, even though many army physicians realize it&#8217;s medically impossible to determine sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;.]<\/p>\n<p>Lacking any valid &#8220;diagnostic tools,&#8221; a physician told the BBC World Service, potential gay draftees must prepare whatever evidence they can to convince a military health panel of their homosexuality, sometimes deemed as a &#8220;psychosexual disorder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They asked me if I liked football, whether I wore women&#8217;s clothes or used women&#8217;s perfume,&#8221; said one gay conscript in his 20s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are a group of conscripts trying to get out of military service:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qIFUm70n0fU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prove you are a homosexual. From here: Gay men in Turkey seeking exemption from the country&#8217;s mandatory military service must prove their homosexuality, the BBC reports, even though many army physicians realize it&#8217;s medically impossible to determine sexual orientation. [&#8230;.] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-avoid-military-service-in-turkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2167,1572],"class_list":["post-16059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-homosexuality","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}