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==Obscenity controversy== {{update|section|date=January 2018}} The novel was subject to an obscenity trial in Turkey in 2011. [[Sel Publishing House|Sel Yayıncılık]] and the novel's Turkish translator faced obscenity charges after the release of the book, due to alleged "incompliance with moral norms" and “hurting people’s moral feelings.”<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/17/william-burroughs-publisher-obscenity-charges-turkey | title=William Burroughs publisher faces obscenity charges in Turkey | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=May 17, 2011 | accessdate=February 18, 2013 | author=Flood, Alison}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/16/william-s-burroughs_n_862406.html | title=Istanbul Publisher Faces Obscenity Trial For Releasing William S. Burroughs Novel "The Soft Machine" | work=[[The Huffington Post]] | date=May 16, 2011 | accessdate=February 18, 2013 | author=Torchia, Christopher}}</ref> Sel Yayıncılık and the books’ translators face three more years of uncertainty after the judge pronounced that the trial would be postponed until 2015, due to the implementation of new legislation. Meanwhile, the judge warned that if either of the publishing houses or the translators were foolish enough to publish further ‘obscene’ works, these cases would be added to the charge sheet.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/02/william-burroughs-turkish-publishers-obscenity-trial | title=William Burroughs' Turkish publishers' obscenity trial postponed | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=August 2, 2012 | accessdate=February 18, 2013 | author=Flood, Alison}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://gundem.milliyet.com.tr/mustehcenlik-davasi-guardian-a-tasindi/gundem/gundemdetay/04.08.2012/1576142/default.htm | title=Müstehcenlik davası Guardian'a taşındı (The obscenity trial was carried out to The Guardian) | publisher=[[Milliyet]] | date=August 4, 2012 | accessdate=February 18, 2013 | language=Turkish }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title= Cut-Ups in memory of William S. Burroughs|url=http://www.inenart.eu/?page_id=13754|work=InEnArt|accessdate=February 5, 2014 | author=Büsch, Thomas | date=5 February 2014 }}</ref>
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