Ayta Sözeri
Ayta Sözeri (born 31 March 1976) is a Turkish actress, singer and LGBT activist. Biography. Sözeri was born on 31 March 1976 in West Germany. Her mother was of Circassian descent. Her family settled in İzmir in 1982 and she underwent sex reassignment surgery at the age of 20. She graduated from the Ege University Business Administration Department and took Turkish classical music at Dokuz Eylül University. Later she started performing as a backing vocalist for a number of artists, including Sezen Aksu.