{"id":67047,"date":"2013-03-05T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T06:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=67047"},"modified":"2014-01-08T01:02:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T23:02:01","slug":"turkey-short-lived-freedom-for-three-books-poem-censored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/03\/05\/turkey-short-lived-freedom-for-three-books-poem-censored\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: Short lived freedom for three books, poem censored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDespite the ban on book lifted under Judicial Pack 3, nine days after the legal statutory period, three books by Umut Publishing were decided to be confiscated,\u201d wrote Antenna TR in the Freedom of Expression Weekly Bulletin on 1 March 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67049\" alt=\"UmutPublishingbooks590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/UmutPublishingbooks590.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/UmutPublishingbooks590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/UmutPublishingbooks590-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u0130stanbul 3rd Magistrate assigned to Anti-terrorism Law (TMK) Article 10 has decided to confiscate the book titles \u2018Umut 30 Ya\u015f\u0131nda, Parti ve Devrim \u015eehitleri Alb\u00fcm\u00fc\u2019, \u2018Belgelerle TKP\/ML-2, F\u0131rt\u0131nalar \u0130\u00e7inde B\u0131\u00e7ak S\u0131rt\u0131nda\u2019 and \u2018\u0130\u015fkencehanelerde K\u0131z\u0131l Devrim Ruhunu Ya\u015fatmaya Haz\u0131rl\u0131kl\u0131 Ol\u2019, with regard to Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s requests of 2, 3, and 4 January 2013, on the grounds that the three books were found to contain terrorist organisational propaganda, and thus offending \u00a75187 Press Law article 25\/2.<\/p>\n<p>The bans on these books had been lifted by the Judicial Pack 3 under the transitory amendment to the same law.<\/p>\n<p>Another poem censured<\/p>\n<p>According to the website bilgicag\u0131.com by Onur Caymaz, now it is poet Cahit K\u00fclebi\u2019s turn to be censored in a 9th grade course book.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish Education Ministry\u2019s 9th grade \u2018Literature book\u2019 contains a well-known poem, \u2018Hikaye\u2019, by Cahit K\u00fclebi. The poem goes somewhat like this in (what Antenna TR describes as \u201ca meek translation attempt\u201d):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt villages I was born \/ north winds prevailed \/ therefore my lips are parches \/ kiss me some!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 where the last line now have been replaced with three dots:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt villages I was born \/ north winds prevailed \/ therefore my lips are parches \/ \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book was edited by Dr. Sakin \u00d6ner.<\/p>\n<p>Lately \u2018Of Mice and Men\u2019, and \u2018My Sweet Orange Tree\u2019 were found unfavorable as well, and poems by famous Turkish poets like Yunus Emre, Kaygusuz Abdal, Edip Cansever have also been removed by the censors, reported The Freedom of Expression Weekly Bulletin on 1 March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey: Short lived freedom for three books, poem censored \u00ab Knowledge and news about Artistic Freedom of Expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDespite the ban on book lifted under Judicial Pack 3, nine days after the legal statutory period, three books by Umut Publishing were decided to be confiscated,\u201d wrote Antenna TR in the Freedom of Expression Weekly Bulletin on 1 March 2013. \u0130stanbul 3rd Magistrate assigned to Anti-terrorism Law (TMK) Article 10 has decided to confiscate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":67049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-67047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}