B��lent Ersoy

Bulent was already a popular singer in Turkey when he travelled toEngland to have a sex change in 1981, becoming a woman yet retainingthe traditionally male birth name of Bulent. Under a crackdown on"social deviance" by then Turkish leader Kenan Evren, Bulent was bannedfrom public performances and was also refused a court petition to haveher sex re-classfied as female. Ersoy left entertainment in protestuntil 1988, when changes in the Turkish legal code allowed for MtoFtranssexuals to be legally classfied as women. Bulent returned torecording, and actually became even more popular as a female vocalistthan she had been as a man.In 1998, Bulent caused controversy again when she married her27-year-old companion, Cem Adler - yet the controversy was over the 20+age difference between them, not the fact that Bulent had once been aman. The couple divorced a year later after Bulent caught Cem with acall girl. In January of 1999, Bulent was involved in a serious caraccident which required su... [Details Intro]