As punk rock goes, a song bemoaning a high school exam hardly sounds like the stuff of anarchy
But in Turkey it can land you in court
All the song does is lash out against Turkey's equivalent of the SAT, the exam that all Turkish high-schoolers must pass to have a shot at getting into college
to Turkish prosecutors it's an insult to the state
The song is several years old and may have gone unnoticed were this not the Internet age
It came to prosecutors' notice only after a teenager lip-synched the song and posted it on
youtube.com last year for the whole world to see
The punk song is called "OSYM," the Turkish acronym for The Student Selection and Placement Center
"Life should not be a prison because of an exam," go the lyrics of "OSYM." "I have gotten lost/ You have ruined my future/ I am going to tell you one thing:/ Shove that exam..."
in 2006 there were university spots for fewer than one-third of the 1.5 million students
"Compared to dictatorships, Turkey is like heaven," he said
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