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…
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…
MÜYAP: No Intention to Block Access to Last FM and MySpace: “MÜYAP chairman Forta claimed: ‘Ownership rights are stolen, we fight for our right. Turkish law blocked access to the websites’. Forta argued that MÜYAP agreed with MySpace and that the site can be accessed again within a few days.” (Via Bianet :: English.)
Since the Law No. 5651 entitled Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publication came into force in November 2007, access to a considerable number of foreign websites including popular websites such as YouTube, Geocities, DailyMotion, WordPress, Google Groups, and Google Sites have been blocked from Turkey under the provisions of this…
As of Friday, 18 September, 2009 access to popular social networks Myspace and Last.fm are blocked from Turkey. The blocking order is issued by the Beyoğlu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office (order not 2009/45 dated 26.06.2009). It is suspected that both sites are blocked because of “intellectual property infringements” following a request by Mu-yap, the Turkish Phonographic Industry Society. It is…
Turkey’s YouTube Ban Is Cause For Concern – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2009 July 08, 2009, By Claire Berlinski Very few people in Turkey are exercised by the YouTube blackout, now in its second year. Despite the ban, the video-sharing site is believed to be the ninth most popular site in Turkey. Almost every Internet user —…