OSCE conference: Get Rid of Penal Code for the Media – Bianet OSCE Representative on Freedom of Media Haraszti critisized in the recent conference: ‘The government waits for a ‘mature’ media before granting full legal implementation of freedom of media’. IT lawyer Akdeniz demanded: ‘The internet law should be amended or abolished’. Erol ÖNDEROĞLU – hukuk@bianet.org Istanbul – BİA News…
Turkey’s state Telecommunications authority asks Youtube to create Turkish version: “Turkeys telecommunications authority has reportedly asked famous video-sharing website Youtube to launch its Turkish version to be unblocked in the country.” (Via Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish news :: News.)
FT.com / Media – Turkey to face European Court on YouTube ban By David O’Byrne in Istanbul Published: November 30 2009 16:57 | Last updated: November 30 2009 16:57 Turkey’s controversial censorship of the internet video sharing site YouTube is to be challenged in the European Court of Human Rights, a Turkish internet users group announced on Monday. According to…
Response to The Register story entitled “Turkey censors Reg commentards” published on 28 October, 2009. Dear Sirs, I am the director of Cyber-Rights.Org based in the UK and its sister organisation Cyber-Rights.Org.TR based in Turkey. I am afraid the above mentioned story published on your website is completely inaccurate. Currently access to at least 6000 websites are blocked from Turkey…
Bianet: Seventh Website Ban within One Month Access has been banned to the expatriates.com website which provides information and networking services for people constantly living abroad. The decision was taken by the Telecommunication Communication Presidency for reasons of ‘administrative measures’. Erol ÖNDEROĞLU, hukuk@bianet.org Istanbul – BİA News Center 19 October 2009, Monday The website www.expatriates.com was banned under article 5651…
Turkish music industry vs Myspace, Last.fm – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review Monday, October 12, 2009 ÖZGÜR ÖĞRET ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News Turkey is experiencing another debate over banned Web sites, but this time the matter is not pornography or insulting Turkey’s founder. The Turkish music industry is taking legal action against popular platforms for sharing music, and…
Turkey criticized for blocking access to websites By Yigal Schleifer Oct 9, 2009, 2:08 GMT Istanbul – For Turkish internet users, it’s an image that’s becoming increasingly familiar: at many websites, instead of a homepage, what they find is a short notice telling them the site has been blocked by order of law. YouTube, the popular video sharing website, has…
This speech will be delivered in Strasbourg on Thursday, 08 October, 2009 Intervention Speech for the Cross-Border Internet: Consultation meeting organised by the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 8-9 October 2009 By Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor in Law, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University, Director, Cyber-Rights.Org It is a great honour to be here today in Strasbourg at the Council…
On 22 September 2009 I estimated that access to at least 6000 websites are blocked from Turkey. That was followed by the infamous blocking decisions involving both myspace.com and Last.fm from Turkey. During this weekend we had further cases of access blocking from Turkey. (Article by Doç. Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, 04.10.2009 – Updated on 08.10.2009) First, yesterday morning (Saturday, 03…
Yaman Akdeniz, an Associate Professor of law at the Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University today (29 September, 2009) made an appeal to the Beyoğlu Criminal Court of Peace to overturn the blocking decision involving both myspace.com and Last.fm from Turkey. The blocking decision was enforced by the Turkish ISPs since Friday, 18 September, 2009 by the order of the…