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摘要

A POPULAR adage contends that "ev-ery Turk is born a soldier." Not so Turkish gays, who are barred from mandatory service in the large conscript army because they are "sexually deviant" and so unfit to take up arms. They might consider themselves lucky. An alarming number of Turkish soldiers have been killed recently (24 on October 19th alone), as rebels of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' party (pkk) escalate their war in the predominantly Kurdish south-east.