European Court Rules Against Turkey In Erotic Novel Case

“The Strasbourg-based court ruled in favour of a petition from publisher Rahmi Akdas, who in 1999 printed a Turkish translation of French writer Guillaume Apollinaire’s 1907 novel ‘The Eleven Thousand Rods,’ which has passages on sadism, homosexuality, paedophilia and necrophilia.” The publisher had been convicted of morality crimes.