Sorry, Turkish tops, being a giver will provide no special treatment in Turkiye’s armed forces – in fact, it will hurt your chances of recruitment.

Online rumours that the Middle Eastern country, run by rampantly anti-LGBTQ+ president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prefers its military personnel to be on the offence seem to have spawned from some false information in a viral social media post.

Posted to X/Twitter on Thursday (17 July), user @karmavoodo shared his shock at a screenshot that claimed “passive (bottom) gay men are not allowed to serve in the Turkish military” while “active (top) gay men are permitted to serve in the armed forces.”

The terms top and bottom refer to positions in penetrative, often anal, sex. A “top” refers to an individual penetrating a person or people, while a “bottom” refers to a person being penetrated. Other roles include the “switch”; one who enjoys both top and bottom positions, and a “side”; one who doesn’t enjoy or engage in penetrative sex.

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