{"id":1236,"date":"2010-10-21T19:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2010-10-21T19:44:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:44:55","slug":"facebook-team-examining-options-ahead-of-possible-turkish-ban-hurriyet-daily-news-and-economic-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Facebook team examining options ahead of possible Turkish ban – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook team examining options ahead of possible Turkish ban – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday, October 18, 2010
\nISTANBUL – H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/p>\n

‘Our policy guys are working on it,’ says Trevor Johnson, Facebook\u2019s Strategic and Planning Department chair responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah G\u00dcREL<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s policy team is working on various scenarios for the site in Turkey ahead of an order from one of the country\u2019s courts that could ban access to the popular social networking hub, a company official said Monday.<\/p>\n

\u2018Our policy guys are working on it,\u2019 Trevor Johnson, Facebook\u2019s Strategic and Planning Department chair responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa, told the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News & Economic Review after a Monday speech during the two-day Interactive Marketing Summit, which is being hosted by MedyaNet in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

Johnson said he was aware of the recent public debates in Turkey on a possible court decision to ban access to the website after Turkey\u2019s largest opposition party\u2019s leader petitioned a court to remove offensive content from a page at the beginning of October.<\/p>\n

The chair, however, said he could not give detailed information on whether it was technically possible to remove only some content considered \u2018offensive\u2019 by the Turkish legislation, adding that the policy team was still working on the case.<\/p>\n

He also said he did not know whether there was a deadline for the team to emerge with a solution to the issue.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, the leader of the Republican People\u2019s Party, or CHP, filed a criminal complaint two weeks ago after a Facebook group claiming that the opposition leader was a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party, or PKK.<\/p>\n

CHP officials told the Daily News in an Oct. 7 interview that the party had not asked for Facebook to be banned altogether, but only that the offensive content to be removed.<\/p>\n

K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu is not the first person to file a case against content on Facebook. Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m said in a press conference two weeks ago that 30 over judicial decisions had been issued to ban the site in Turkey.<\/p>\n

The orders have not yet been implemented Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m said, adding that Facebook had also not made any appeals to a higher court on the issue.<\/p>\n

The minister, however, warned that the site could soon be banned if one of the judicial rulings is put into effect.<\/p>\n

If the court hearing the K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu case does decide to ban the website, more than 22.5 million Facebook users in Turkey would lose access to their accounts.<\/p>\n

Access to other popular websites such as the video-sharing portal YouTube has been banned since a court order in 2007. Civil society organizations have continuously organized protests against Law no. 5651, under which access to websites is banned.<\/p>\n

Many legal experts believe the law violates fundamental and constitutional rights to inform people and be informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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