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Is Mabel Matiz’s music video really obscene?
(Mabel Matiz'in klibi gerçekten müstehcen mi?)
The video is in Turkish.
About the video
Is Mabel Matiz’s music video really “obscene”? The debate over Mabel Matiz’s song “Ha Leylim” and its video in fact raises a much more fundamental question of criminal law.
Is finding a work of art disturbing, unconventional or out of the ordinary enough to treat it as “obscene” within the meaning of criminal law? The limits of the offence of obscenity in Article 226 of the Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) cannot be drawn on the basis of personal taste or moral convictions. The content must be serious enough to justify the intervention of criminal law.