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,…
Bianet’te bu sabah yayınlanan ve Adnan Oktar tarafından sansürlenmeye çalışılan yazımızla ilgili yazdığımız yazı. [Yaman Akdeniz] Bianet: Adnan Oktar, İnternet ve Özelleştirilen Sansür Araçları: “Adnan Oktar, İnternet ve Özelleştirilen Sansür Araçları Bugüne kadar 61 site hakkında kapatma kararı çıkmasını sağlayan Adnan Oktar’a uyan mahkemelerin kararlarının hukuksuz olduğunda ısrarlıyız. 5651 sayılı yasa kaldırılmalı. Bu haliyle uygulama otosansür tehlikesini getiriyor. BİA Haber…
[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 –…