Bianet: Aquittal for Author of “Allah’s Daughters” Writer Gürsel has been acquitted of ‘denigrating religious values’ with his book ‘Allah’s Daughters’. Erol ÖNDEROĞLU, hukuk@bianet.org Istanbul – BİA News Center 26 June 2009, Friday Writer Nedim Gürsel, author of the book ‘Allah’s Daughters’, has been acquitted of ‘denigrating religious values’ and ‘inciting the public to hatred and hostility’ by the Şişli…
Kevin Anderson: Net surveillance and filters are a reality for Europe, too | Technology | The Guardian: “Net surveillance and filters are a reality for Europe, too Kevin Anderson, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 24 June 2009 20.30 BST The internet is playing such a key role in getting information out of Iran that attention has focused, once again, on how much Iran…
@DW Global Media Forum: Net censors are ‘on the wrong side of history’, say bloggers | Media | guardian.co.uk: “@DW Global Media Forum: Net censors are ‘on the wrong side of history’, say bloggers Bloggers discuss internet censorship in their countries – Turkey, Egypt and China – and discuss what needs to be done to keep the internet open. International…
ADD moves to ban Google sites for defaming Atatürk 13 April 2009, Monday, TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, İSTANBUL The Atatürkist Thought Association (ADD) has moved to block access to Google Sites due to content it deems insulting to Atatürk, the founder of Turkey, and the concept of Turkishness. The association recently applied to the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office to ban…
freedomhouse.org: Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media March 30, 2009 As internet and mobile phone use explodes worldwide, governments are adopting new and multiple means for controlling these technologies that go far beyond technical filtering. Freedom on the Net provides a comprehensive look at these emerging tactics, raising concern over trends such as the…
Experts warn parents of threat Internet poses to children Zaman, 08 March 2009, ZEKİ GÜLEN. As Turkey’s urban population grows and the threats faced by children in large cities increase in number, parents have a growing tendency to keep their children near them at all times. A significant number of children these days spend much of their free time on…
Telecommunications Directorate blocks access to 1,631 sites 04 March 2009, Wednesday, ÖMER ÖRUÇ İZMIR Access to 1,631 Internet sites has been blocked by the Telecommunications Directorate since 2007. The Telecommunications Directorate (TİB) has blocked access to more than 1,600 Internet sites since 2007 as requests flooded the institution to put an end to obscenity, prostitution and sexual exploitation of children…
Turkish Website Blocking Statistics as of 01 January 2009 [Blog entry by Yaman Akdeniz] Since the Turkish Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publications came into force in November 2007, several websites were blocked by court orders and administrative blocking orders issued by the Telecommunications Communication…
Never Mind the Ban, Turkish Leader Stars on YouTube – The Lede Blog – NYTimes.com February 2, 2009, 11:56 am Never Mind the Ban, Turkish Leader Stars on YouTube By Robert Mackey And he may ask himself, Well, how did I get here? Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey, a country that bans YouTube, stares into a Webcam…
Turks circumvent YouTube ban – The National Newspaper Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent Last Updated: January 16. 2009 9:30AM UAE / January 16. 2009 5:30AM GMT ISTANBUL // Two months ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, stunned the public by admitting that he has joined hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens in doing something that the country’s courts say…