Fazil Say (musician)
Artist: Fazil Say
Year: 2012
Date of Action: June 2012
Region: Middle East
Location: Turkey
Subject: Religion, Political/Economic/Social Opinion
Medium: Internet "Internet" is not in the list (Commercial Advertising, Dance, Design, Installation, Journalism, Literature, Mixed Media, Music, Online, Painting, ...) of allowed values for the "Has medium" property., Public Speech
Confronting Bodies: The Turkish Government
Description of Artwork: "Say wrote a tweet mocking the muezzin, a person who leads the call to prayer in a mosque. 'The muezzin finished the azan in 22 seconds. What’s the rush? A lover? A raki table?' he asked. He also retweeted a verse attributed to the 11th-century poet Omar Khayyám: 'You say rivers of wine flow in heaven, is heaven a tavern for you? You say two houris await each believer there, is heaven a brothel to you?'" [1]
The Incident: Say wrote the tweets, which had been re-tweeted by numerous other people, in April. He is now facing charges for insulting Islam.
Results of Incident: The trial is set to begin on October 17.
Source:
• http://artsfreedom.org/?p=1255
Faizil Say's website: http://fazilsay.com/
