{"id":31969,"date":"2012-01-13T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31969"},"modified":"2016-10-06T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:11:40","slug":"turkey-art-exhibition-caught-in-censorship-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31969","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: Art exhibition caught in censorship debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An art exhibition in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Turkey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Turkey\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey<\/a> has been cancelled by organisers after municipal officials were <a title=\"Hurriyed Daily News : Censorship debate scuttles exhibit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/censorship-debate-scuttles-exhibit.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=11343&amp;NewsCatID=385\" target=\"_blank\">accused of censorship<\/a>. Three photographs were removed from the exhibit\u00a0titled &#8220;Ayk\u0131r\u0131&#8221; (Contrary) by\u00a0officials from the \u0130zmir Metropolitan Municipality after newspaper reports suggested some photographs\u00a0contradicted religious and social values. Another report said that the exhibition\u00a0insulted &#8220;religious values has alarmed the country.\u201d Following the removal of the images by authorities, organisers\u00a0\u0130zmir Photography Art Association (IFOD) pulled the exhibition.\u00a0Among the photos that caused controversy were two headscarfed women kissing each other, two men kissing each other, and a headscarfed woman wearing a bikini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An art exhibition in Turkey has been cancelled by organisers after municipal officials were accused of censorship. Three photographs were removed from the exhibit\u00a0titled &#8220;Ayk\u0131r\u0131&#8221; (Contrary) by\u00a0officials from the \u0130zmir Metropolitan Municipality after newspaper reports suggested some photographs\u00a0contradicted religious and social values. Another report said that the exhibition\u00a0insulted &#8220;religious values has alarmed the country.\u201d Following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4059,584,585],"tags":[103,4188,4187,78,7355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31986,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31969\/revisions\/31986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}