No, you don’t need to be a gay ‘top’ to serve in the Turkish military

Sorry, Turkish tops are gifted, and don’t offer special treatment in the army of Torkier. In fact, it will hurt your recruitment potential.

Online rumors that Middle Eastern countries are run by anti-LGBTQ+ president Receptacle, while rampaging, prefer that the military personnel appear to have been born out of some misinformation on the virus’ social media post.

User @Karmavoodo, posted on X/Twitter on Thursday (July 17), shared the shock in a screenshot claiming that “passive (bottom) gay men are not permitted to serve the Turkish military.”

The terms top and bottom refer to permeable, often anal sex positions. “Top” refers to the person’s penetration into a person or a person, while “bottom” refers to the person who has been invaded. Other roles include “switches.” Those who enjoy both the top and bottom positions and “sides”. People who don’t enjoy or get involved in penetrating sex.

I’ll be waiting pic.twitter.com/29gp2trlx1

– Karma (@karmavoodo) July 17, 2025

Expressing his shock to the obvious fact that Turkier’s army only employs from the top bank, @Karmavoodo cried out in the post.

No, it’s not real, the pink nake can be seen.

The screenshot appears to have been taken from a joint equality index site equaldex. Launched in 2014, the site relies on users to update and verify the status of LGBTQ+ laws in countries around the world, ranking them on the global equality index.

The entries featured in the Virus Post were submitted on September 16, 2013 in the site’s closure alpha testing stage, using the 2009 Turkish progress report from the European Community Commission as a source.

The report refers to the Turkish military’s homophobic policies that deem homosexuality as a “psychotic illness” and prohibit LGBTQ+ individuals from serving, adding conscriptions that they don’t want to serve in the military, and instead declare homosexuality and excuse themselves,” and “we must provide a photo.”

However, it is not said that Torkier’s military personnel must be at the top only to be entitled to serve the army.

This entry was read on EqualDex for nearly a decade, which was changed in July 2021, and referenced the 2020 report highlighting the “psychiatric disorder” policy.

However, it was changed again in 2022, falsely claiming that it had to provide “photographed evidence that it was on the receiver of anal sex.”

One user points out in the revised post. [the] The military is certainly illegal, but it appears there is no need to provide evidence of anal sex. ”

This entry has been changed several times over the past few years, removing the line as to whether the Turkish military should be at the top and has since been reintroduced.

The current latest entry states, “Until 2015, gay men had to prove that they were gay by providing photographic evidence that they were on the receiver of anal sex.”

This isn’t the case either. Turkiye citizens must provide photographic evidence of homosexuality to be exempt from military service, but it is not necessary that the photographs in any way involve anal sex.

BBC In 2012, a young man reported that he was banned from serving in the military after showing a photo of himself kissing another man.