Turkey
ONI Blog: Turkey: Will Unbanning of YouTube Be Short-Lived?
In 2007, Turkey blocked video-sharing site YouTube for the first time, joining a list of 12 or so other countries to have done so at some point, including Armenia, Syria, Morocco,and Tunisia. The site then became available intermittently throughout much...
- Posted on 02/Nov/2010; tagged in Turkey
ONI Blog: Turkish Citizens Take To The Streets Over Internet Freedoms
Outrage and concern finally boiled over in Istanbul on Saturday as thousands took to the streets in protest of Turkey’s Internet Censorship policy.
Physical protests of Internet policy are really a never-before-seen occurance, even with all the twists and turns of cyberspace regulation...
ONI Blog: Turkey Blocks YouTube, Inadvertently Blocks Google Services
Turkish internet users have been tweeting that that they have been unable to access some Google Services over the past few days, using the hashtag #TurkeyCensorGoogle. Tweeters such as @xceptn have been speculating that this is because their Internet Service...
ONI Blog: Turkey's Capricious Filtering - Just Too Easy
Turkey has made headlines lately for its capricious filtering; although previous incidents involved filtering sites which insulted Kemal Ataturk or "Turkishness" in general, lately, the filtering seems nearly impulsive.
A site entitled List of websites blocked by Turkish Telecom...or how Turkey disgraces...
- Posted on 07/Nov/2008; tagged in Turkey, Europe, Arrests and legal action, Political filtering, Social filtering, Overblocking, IP blocking
ONI Blog: Turkey: Blogger.com blocked?
Our friends at Global Voices Advocacy have reported that Blogger.com has been added to the list of sites filtered in Turkey. This latest news of filtering comes on the heels of news that Wordpress.com, Richard Dawkins' web site...
- Posted on 26/Oct/2008; tagged in Turkey, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Legislation, Conflict and security filtering
ONI Blog: Three Easy Steps to Block Sites in Turkey
In a clear instance of vexatious litigation, a Turkish court has blocked the Web site of prominent evolutionist Richard Dawkins following complaints from Islamic creationist and author Adnan Oktar. Oktar, who writes under the nom de plume Harun Yahya, filed...
- Posted on 25/Sep/2008; tagged in Turkey, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Legislation, Arrests and legal action, Defamation, Take-down, Social filtering
ONI Blog: Turkey and YouTube: A Contentious Relationship
Turkey has a contentious relationship with popular video-sharing site YouTube. Blocked for the first time in early 2007, YouTube was intermittently available for most of 2007, only to be banned again in January of 2008.
Each time, the...
ONI Blog: Experts Hold Workshop to Discuss Turkey's Growing Censorship
A group of people gathered in the northwest mountains of Turkey last week – and it wasn’t to cheer on the national football team in the Euro 2008 Cup.
The Eurasia Daily Monitor reports that a group of lawyers, academics,...
- Posted on 27/Jun/2008; tagged in Turkey
ONI Blog: The Cat-and-Mouse Game in the Turkish Cyberspace
YouTube was blocked again in Turkey on May 6, 2008 following an Ankara court order. YouTube has been banned a number of times in the last two years, usually because of videos offensive to the country hero Kemal Ataturk or to the...
ONI Blog: Turkey's challenge in content controls
Turkey's largest English-language newspaper, the Turkish Daily News, ran an op-ed by John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain today, on the future of the Net and the risk to freedoms of speech and expression. They write:
In Turkey, the Internet...
