(ANSAmed) - ANKARA, JUNE 11 - As the Turkish press reports
today, the Supreme Appeal Court in Ankara has ruled as
''unnatural'' any acts of gay sex, oral, anal or group sex -
including that of the sado-masochistic sort - and sex with
animals or with corpses.
According to daily paper Vatan, in a new ruling, the High Court
has provided for the imprisonment of any persons in possession
of videos displaying scenes of oral or anal sex, on the basis of
Article 262/2 of the Turkish criminal code. Punishments foreseen
for representing ''unnatural'' vary from one to four years in
prison. As Hurriyet points out, in a previous ruling, the court
had defined pornographic videos of gay or group sex as having
''unnatural'' contents.
In this latest statement, the supreme court said that a
six-month sentence imposed by a provincial court for the selling
of pornographic videos with oral or anal sex content had been
too lenient because such content is ''unnatural''. The new
ruling comes at a time that voices are being raised in Turkey's
lay communities against the 'rampant' Islamification of the
country after ten years of rule by Islamic-nationalist premier
Recep tayyip Erdogan.(ANSAmed).
