Apollinaire publisher on trial in Turkey
Turkish publisher and translator of French writer's Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don Juan accused of corrupting public morality
Guillaume Apollinaire
Kaya Genç
Monday 16 December 2013 11.12 EST
A publisher and a translator are to go on trial in Istanbul for corrupting public morality – for publishing a book written more than 100 years ago.
Les Exploits d'un Jeune Don Juan (The Exploits of a Young Don Juan) by Guillaume Apollinaire is not the first of the French surrealist's books to fall foul of Turkey's strict censorship laws: Rahmi Akda was convicted of publishing obscene or immoral material after he published Les Onze Mille Verges in 1999.
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