European parliamentarians urge Turkey to remove YouTube ban 28.11.2008 A delegation from the European Parliament urged Turkish officials to make the necessary legal arrangements to enhance freedom of expression and eventually lift the ban on access to YouTube. European parliamentarians urge Turkey to remove YouTube ban ‘Banning YouTube, Google’s blogging site, the websites of a teachers’ trade union, Richard Dawkins…
BIA Quarterly Report Released: State’s Security Hijacks The Freedom Of Expression: “Quarterly Freedom Of Expression Monitoring Report by BIA observes: 11 individuals, 77 of them journalists, were tried in 73 different cases for their opinions and reporting rights violations by the state. 36 of them were tried under article 301. Crimes against journalists go unpunished and military based censorship is…
YouTube is not the only site banned by Turkey A law that gives prosecutors and courts the legal right to block access to certain Web sites has caused much embarrassment to Turkey, as some have exploited the system against freedom of speech, but the law has also served a good purpose, as a majority of the sites shut down had…
Cohen’s article refers to the censorship attempt involving the Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar and the Akdeniz & Altiparmak article published in Bianet. Nick Cohen: Beware – creationism’s march will go on, The Observer, November 2, 2008 The idea of intelligent fundamentalists, like the theory of intelligent design, does not stand up to 30 seconds’ scrutiny. I must, nevertheless, give credit…
Turkish Daily News: Turks surf the net under a ninja cloak Nov 05, 2008 As the number of Internet blockings increase, alternative ways to access banned sites are becoming more popular. Web sites such as vtunnel or ninjacloak allow users to enter blocked sites by hiding their IP address. The irony highlights the legal system’s mistreatment to the medium and…
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,…
Bu da Fransızca anlıyanlar için…. CollectifVAN.org: “Turquie: Bianet menacé de censure Publié le : 31-10-2008 Info Collectif VAN – www.collectifvan.org – Le Collectif VAN vous invite à lire ce Communiqué de Presse paru sur le site de Reporters sans frontières du 31 octobre 2008. Turquie: le site Internet d’informations Bianet menacé de censure Le 28 octobre 2008, les avocats du…
Turkey tightens controls on Internet speech | csmonitor.com: “Turkey tightens controls on Internet speech The country’s courts and governments have banned 850 websites this year, including YouTube and Blogger. By Yigal Schleifer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the October 30, 2008 edition” Istanbul, Turkey – For pioneering Turkish blogger Erkan Saka, these are dark days. Last week,…
[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…
Bianet: We Will Not Give In To Adnan Oktar’s Threats! Adnan Oktar, the name behind the closing of many internet sites in Turkey, threatens bianet: ‘There is an insulting article, take it off the internet or we will have you banned like Richard Dawkin’s site.’ There is no insult, so we are not taking it off! Bia news center –…