{"id":390,"date":"2009-04-18T10:23:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T07:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-04-18T10:23:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T07:23:51","slug":"add-moves-to-ban-google-sites-for-defaming-ataturk-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"ADD moves to ban Google sites for defaming Atat\u00fcrk in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADD moves to ban Google sites for defaming Atat\u00fcrk<\/a><\/p>\n

13 April 2009, Monday, TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, \u0130STANBUL<\/p>\n

The Atat\u00fcrkist Thought Association (ADD) has moved to block access to Google Sites due to content it deems insulting to Atat\u00fcrk, the founder of Turkey, and the concept of Turkishness.<\/p>\n

The association recently applied to the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office to ban Google Sites, saying several pages affiliated with the famous search engine insult Atat\u00fcrk and the concept of Turkishness. It is illegal in Turkey to insult Atat\u00fcrk, a revered figure whose portrait still hangs in nearly all government offices almost 70 years after his death in 1938.<\/p>\n

A petition submitted by the neo-nationalist association to the prosecutor\u2019s office read that the owners or founders of the Web sites in question were not found, adding a notice on the bottom of the sites indicated that they were powered by Google Sites. \u2018For this reason, we request that an investigation be launched into the issue and necessary precautions be taken,\u2019 the petition read.<\/p>\n

Turkey has become the focus of harsh criticism due to an increasing number of Web sites blocked by the government. Web sites in Turkey are most often banned on the grounds that they insult Atat\u00fcrk, contain vulgarity, enable gambling or promote suicide.<\/p>\n

Many sites have also been banned for crimes covered under the Internet Security Law, but a number of sites are banned for no apparent reason. Among the Web sites frequently banned in the country is the popular video-sharing portal YouTube, which was first banned by a controversial court decision in May 2008 for broadcasting videos deemed insulting to Atat\u00fcrk and the concept of Turkishness. Though the ban was lifted several times, access to YouTube was blocked over and over again by different Turkish courts for the very same reason.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Berivan Zeren — a female teacher at \u0130stanbul\u2019s Kadriye Moro\u011flu High School — was fired by the superintendent of the school due to \u2018her hostile acts against the memory of Atat\u00fcrk.\u2019<\/p>\n

According to a report published by the Taraf daily yesterday, Zeren distributed course-related documents to her students on democracy and human rights. A section of the documents was set aside for Atat\u00fcrk and said all acts in the school needn\u2019t be supported by a saying of Atat\u00fcrk. A group of Zeren\u2019s colleagues took the documents to the superintendent and complained that she was engaging in anti-Atat\u00fcrk acts.<\/p>\n

Zeren was fired by the superintendent, Abd\u00fclselam Demir, on March 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ADD moves to ban Google sites for defaming Atat\u00fcrk 13 April 2009, Monday, TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, \u0130STANBUL The Atat\u00fcrkist Thought Association (ADD) has moved to block access to Google Sites due to content it deems insulting to Atat\u00fcrk, the founder of Turkey, and the concept of Turkishness. The association recently applied to the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office to ban…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,6,43,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blocking-and-filtering","category-censorship","category-defamation","category-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wjA8-6i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/privacy.cyber-rights.org.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}