Complex sentence: In 2002, he was confiscated his music-publishing license for issuing an old folk song that featured the word "Kurdistan", taboo in Turkey; only a public outcry eventually led to the sentence being reversed.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2002, his music-publishing license was confiscated after he issued an old folk song that featured the word "Kurdistan", which is taboo in Turkey. It was only a public outcry that eventually led to the sentence being reversed.