On the one hand the situation in Turkey seems worrisome -- see, for example Sal Robinson on Obscenity trials in Turkey get Snuff'd at the Melville House weblog -- on the other ... well, Hürriyet Daily News reports:
Censorship is unacceptable and obstructive, not only in literature, but also in the arts, media, politics and other fields, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said in an interview with The Istanbul Review magazine.(The interview is not freely available online, but The Istanbul Review is quite impressive looking -- though ... what's with the motto: 'A living history of voices in ink' ? Really ?)