{"id":150062,"date":"2026-08-21T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/150062\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:33:42","slug":"turkey-releases-singer-under-travel-ban-in-obscenity-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/150062\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey releases singer under travel ban in obscenity probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mabel-e1759500597378.png\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"333\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"mabel\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mabel-e1759500597378-696x333.png\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"333\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mabel-e1759500597378-696x333.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"mabel\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Turkish court on Friday released pop singer and songwriter Mabel Matiz under a travel ban after police detained him in an obscenity probe into the lyrics and video for his new song, \u201cHa Leylim,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/turkishminute.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish Minute<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matiz, 40, whose real name is Fatih Karaca, went to an \u0130stanbul courthouse with his lawyers after prosecutors called him in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors asked a judge to impose the travel ban, which the judge granted before Matiz left the courthouse, Turkey\u2019s state-run Anadolu news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The probe began on August 13 under Article 226 of the Turkish Penal Code, which bars the spread of obscene work and carries a prison term of six months to three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors have not said which words or scenes they deem obscene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The August 11 video is set at a wedding and shows a groom trading long looks with another man, a scene widely read as a hint at a hidden gay love story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A court blocked access to the song in Turkey on August 15 after the video sparked attacks from pro-government media and anti-LGBT social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matiz, who is openly gay, was acquitted on May 8 of the same charge over his earlier song \u201cPerperi\u015fan\u201d after a court found that the crime had not been proven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Turkish court on Friday released pop singer and songwriter Mabel Matiz under a travel ban after police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[422,423,425,426,312,427,428,36388,429,431,131,132,155],"class_list":["post-150062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-ak-party","tag-akp","tag-democracy","tag-erdogan","tag-human-rights","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-mabel-matiz","tag-oppression","tag-rule-of-law","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117134229853061731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}