They are distressed of being part of the militarys methods of exempting the gays from military service. According to Şebnem Fincancı Korur from the Istanbul Chamber of Physicans, physical examination cannot reveal whether a person is homosexual or not.
Many people come to physicians offices and hospitals in order to obtain homosexuality reports, Şebnem Korur Fincancı of Istanbul Chamber of Physicians.
This is totally against deontology. Physicians must not be instrumentalized in such cases.
Albeit such applicants are informed that individual declaration is enough for their sexual preferences and physical examination is absolutely unnecessary the gay applicants insist on obtaining a report, Fincancı told bianet.
For army officials ask for images of their homosexual relations if such medical reports are not provided, she says.
Korur also points out to fact that since military physicians are not allowed for membership in the chamber they are incapable of imposing deontological measures on their military colleagues.
How to measure effeminacy
According to military stereotype, effeminacy is an evidence of homosexuality. In order to measure the effeminacy degree of a person, a personality test called Minesota (MMPI) is employed by the Armed Forces.
MMPI comprises of 580 questions that should be answered yes or no. It has eight sub-measurements like schizophrenia, psychometric deviation, female-male deviations, hysteria, etc.
The answers given to questions create a character profile. Generally, it is used for detecting pathological deviations. However, it is not possible to declare whether someone is gay with this test, says psychologist Mahmut Şefik Nil.
Moreover, demanding pornographic images from someone is traumatizing and highly unethical in medical sense Nil concludes.
