Sentences for 26 men convicted of having sex with a year - old were reduced . The ruling said the men had engaged in ` ` consensual '' sex . This decision is not definite , it is also not possible for this decision to be changed by making noise , '' said Fevzi Elmas of the Supreme Court of Appeals , in an interview with the semi-official Anatolian Agency on Friday . Turkey 's president said the situation made him ` ` deeply uncomfortable ''
Sentences for 26 men convicted of having sex with a year - old were reduced . The ruling said the men had engaged in ` ` consensual '' sex . Turkey 's president said the situation made him ` ` deeply uncomfortable ''