19 April 2013
After long legal proceedings involving the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and novelist Elif Şafak, once again Turkey hits the headlines with news of a court order against one of the most illustrious personalities of the country - pianist Fazil Say. Virtuoso musician, he has played with some of the most important philharmonic orchestras in the world, including Tokyo’s, New York’s and Berlin’s. Proceedings against Say started last October when a prosecutor acted on complaints by individuals who said they had been offended by the musician’s comments on his Twitter account.