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5651 No.lu Kanun, Defamation, Terör, Terörle Mücadele, TIB September 26, 2010

Turkish telecommunications head faces three years for not blocking website – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review

Turkish telecommunications head faces three years for not blocking website – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review Sunday, September 26, 2010 ISTANBUL – Daily news with wires The head of the Telecommunication Transmission Directorate, or TİB, is facing one to three years in prison for not halting access to a website that claimed the main opposition party’s leader is a…

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Blocking and Filtering, Censorship, Defamation, Turkey April 18, 2009

ADD moves to ban Google sites for defaming Atatürk in Turkey

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…

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Adnan Hoca, Blocking and Filtering, Censorship, Defamation, Turkey November 2, 2008

Index on Censorship on Internet censorship in Turkey

Index on Censorship: ‘There are more people working on censoring the Internet than developing it’ Yigal Schleifer is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor The successes of Harun Yahya show just how easy it is to shut down web discussion in Turkey, writes Yigal Schleifer Turkish Internet users woke up on 24 October to find that access to Blogger,…

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5651 No.lu Kanun, Adnan Hoca, Censorship, Defamation, Düşünce Özgürlüğü, Erişim Engelleme, Turkey October 30, 2008

Turkish creationist threatens to sue website for an article written by Yaman Akdeniz and Kerem Altıparmak

[Blog entry by Yaman Akdeniz] Interesting story developing in Turkey right now. If you would recall Adnan Oktar (Adnan Hodja) is the Turkish creationist who is behind almost 61 blocking orders issued by the courts in Turkey to popular websites including wordpress.com, richarddawkins.net, egitimsen.org.tr, groups.google and gazetevatan.com. As you will read below, this time he threatened to take legal action…