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Blent Ersoy is a Turkish actress and trans woman celebrity and popular singer of Ottoman classical music. Over the years, Ersoy has become a symbol for the increased tolerance for LGBT figures in Turkey.

Blent Ersoy was born Blent Erko onJune 1952 in Istanbul, Blent began her career as a male singer, in the genre of Turkish classical music, and became an actor early on. Already one of Turkeys most popular male singers and actors, she gained international notoriety in 1981 after having sex reassignment surgery in London by a British plastic surgeon. she kept the name Blent even though it is a male name.

Source: Wikipedia