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  • #11
    TURKEY BANS YOUTUBE, AGAIN
    Chris Peredun

    DailyTech, IL
    http://www.dailytech.com/Turkey+Bans+YouTube+Again/article10410.htm

    Jan 21 2008

    Deja vu all over again

    In what is becoming a bit of a recurring event, YouTube has once again
    found itself banned from Turkey for having clips available that insult
    the first president and founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

    After a ban in March of 2007, Turkish citizens were once again free
    to peruse YouTube's collection of poorly-rendered karaoke footage
    and clips of bodily harm. A court ruling in September threatened to
    re-enact the ban, but it was never enforced -- and the most recent
    ruling passed on January 17th resulted in the current blockade.

    "Insulting Turkishness" is a criminal act in Turkey, and even being
    able to view the objectionable video was deemed enough to warrant a
    ban on the entire site. The supposed clip in question compares Ataturk
    with a monkey, and attempting to browse to the YouTube homepage from
    anywhere within Turkey results in an error stating "Access to this
    web site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2008/55
    of T.R. Ankara 12th Criminal Court of Peace."

    At least 65 people -- including many journalists and writers -- have
    been charged with "insulting Turkishness" since the introduction of
    the law in June of 2005. The law calls for a sentence of between six
    months and three years in prison for "anyone who openly denigrates the
    government, judicial institutions or military or police structures"
    -- or even mentioning past transgressions of the nation, such as the
    Armenian massacres or Kurdish questioning.
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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    • #12
      It is not just humeorus sites that are banned. See here, http://richarddawkins.net/forum/view...34f681b9fe9495

      And as well as sites banned by Turk Telekom, thousands more sites are made inaccessible by the censoring software that most internet cafes are obliged to install (and most Turks access the internet through such cafes). Must admit I've never tried accessing armeniangenocide.com from a Turkish internet cafes but, for example, xxxxxxxx is banned.
      Plenipotentiary meow!

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      • #13
        Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
        It is not just humeorus sites that are banned. See here, http://richarddawkins.net/forum/view...34f681b9fe9495

        And as well as sites banned by Turk Telekom, thousands more sites are made inaccessible by the censoring software that most internet cafes are obliged to install (and most Turks access the internet through such cafes). Must admit I've never tried accessing armeniangenocide.com from a Turkish internet cafes but, for example, xxxxxxxx is banned.
        Last time I was in Turkey- summer 2005- in Izmir, I was unable event to access groong.com. Maybe that has changed since then.
        General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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        • #14
          Originally posted by Joseph View Post
          Last time I was in Turkey- summer 2005- in Izmir, I was unable event to access groong.com. Maybe that has changed since then.
          Never had any problem with groong except that sometimes individual news articles are inaccessible. The more western, or more ethnically Turkish, the town or city is, the less likely its internet cafes will have censoring software installed. For example, the only town in eastern Turkey I have been able to access xxxxxxxx is Erzincan.
          Plenipotentiary meow!

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          • #15
            Originally posted by Joseph View Post
            Last time I was in Turkey- summer 2005- in Izmir, I was unable event to access groong.com. Maybe that has changed since then.
            The timing of this is very strange due to the fact that Turkey claims they will amend their article 301 and just yesterday news came out that high-profile and powerful nationalist Turks were arrested in connection with the finding of explosives.

            I guess it is just more evidence that Turkey is teetering on whether to fight their unhealthy nationalism or encourage it.

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            • #16
              Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
              It is not just humeorus sites that are banned. See here, http://richarddawkins.net/forum/view...34f681b9fe9495

              Must admit I've never tried accessing armeniangenocide.com from a Turkish internet cafes but, for example, xxxxxxxx is banned.
              That shouldn't be a problem for you. Didn't xxxxxxxx ban you for some infraction?

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              • #17
                This almost makes me embarassed to say that I have some Turkish blood in me....

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                • #18
                  Another Internet Site Is BannedThe censorship against the internet sites is continuing in Turkey. After youtube.com and dailymotion, not the sites of kliptube and gundemonline.com are banned, too.

                  Bia news center - Istanbul-ankara

                  14-08-2008


                  Erol ÖNDEROĞLU - [email protected]

                  After the internet sites youtube.com and dailymotion, the access to the site of kliptube.com is denied to the internet users in Turkey.

                  The biggest video sharing site of the internet, youtube.com, has been closed in Turkey for three months now. Dailymotion.com has just recently been added to the list.

                  “The access to this site is barred by a court decision”
                  The latest victim is another video sharing site, kliptube.com. However, it is not possible to find out how, when and why the access to this site is banned by going to the site itself.

                  Those who visit the site are greeted by the sentence that “The access to this site is barred by a court decision”. The same happened to the dailymotion in the beginning of August.

                  The internet site of gundemonline.com is banned without any justification
                  Ankara’s 11th High Criminal Court banned gundemonline.com, a site about the Kurdish problem, on August 7 without any justification. However, it is not known what particular page of the site led to the banning.

                  According to one of the site authorities, Ramazan Pekgöz, their site has been closed by court orders four times so far. He says that nobody gives them any explanation about the situation. Since it is a very long process to remove this court order, they simply continue their existence by changing names. (EÖ/EZÖ
                  Aradığınız sayfa bulunamadı
                  http://www.bianet.org/english/kategori/english/109021/another-internet-site-is-banned
                  "All truth passes through three stages:
                  First, it is ridiculed;
                  Second, it is violently opposed; and
                  Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

                  Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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                  • #19
                    The same site (YouTube) was banned in Armenia earlier this year.

                    Can Armenia be taught tolerance?

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                    • #20
                      When, during the elections?
                      "All truth passes through three stages:
                      First, it is ridiculed;
                      Second, it is violently opposed; and
                      Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

                      Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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