I’m not happy with this decision of the court, which was trying to find a middle course because it didn’t want any more reactions,” he said.
I would like to highlight that I had already been acquitted in this case. “The imprisonment decision has just been frozen for now. Sanci made it quite clear that he didn’t consider necessarily consider this a positive result. On Tuesday, the sentencing for Sancı and Yerguz was postponed for three years, provided they do “not commit the same offense again” the two were facing 6 to 10 years in jail. His books are a universal literature heritage… Any decision against publishing his books will contradict democratic principles and breach international human rights agreements that Turkey is a part of. In a move that perhaps didn’t come as a complete surprise, a group of French literary organizations objected to the trial, saying that the book represents beautiful acts of natural love between independent sexual beings… well, no, actually: the French Publishers Association, the French Translators Association, and the Society of the Men of Letters of France (Sociéte des gens de lettres de France) composed an open letter to the Turkish Publishers Association, sayingĪll over the world, Apollinaire books are used to teach in schools. Instead, it was alleged to be filled with “vulgar, ordinary phrases, which intend to provoke sexual desires by way of representing deviant, lesbian, unnatural, even animal-related sexual relationships through the use of children, and with a coarse language” and have “no plot whatsoever”. In 2013 Turkey’s supreme court overturned the verdict, concluding the novel lacked “any artistic or literary value”.
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The obscenity charges against The Exploits of the Young Don Juan were dismissed in an earlier trial in 2009, but, as a Guardian article by Kaya Genç reports, The publishing house Sel and the translator of the book, Ismail Yerguz, were accused of corrupting public morality, and it wasn’t the first appearance in the dock for Sel and its publisher İrfan Sancı, nor is it the first time for this book (see this MobyLives blogpost and this one). This time, the book in question was The Exploits of the Young Don Juan, which was purportedly written by Guillaume Apollinaire and recounts the erotic adventures of a teenager with numerous ladies, including his aunt.
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Where have we heard this before? Judgment on an obscenity trial was postponed yesterday in Turkey, which has seen a series of these trials over the past few years for books like William Burroughs’ The Soft Machine and Chuck Palahniuk’s Snuff. If this man *hadn’t* written a dirty book, then I’d be surprised.
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