Update (27 May): Vodafone Turkey today released a press release stating that there was a misunderstanding. Here is the release in Turkish.
Serpil Timuray, Vodafone Turkey’s CEO, stated today that they support the State’s 22 August filtering regime. …
In other developments,
MÜYAP the copyright monsters, are forcing web publishers to sign documents like the one mentioned here.
In yet other developments, opponent websites have been cyber-attacked recently and more news below about the state of internet regulations in Turkey…
Cyber Attack Spread to Yüksekova News Site
I want freedom, I must be a sick porno freak
Left-wing web sites attacked
The problem with Internet filters
Turks stand up to internet censorship – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
Censorship: EU vs Turkey’s 138 internet domain name ban
Rated ?partially free? in the reporters without borders freedom index, Turkey is the European country with the highest amount of domain name bans. The Turkish telecommunications directorate list of ‘expurgatorial words’ – for example, you can’t use the word for sister-in-law (Bildaz) – was sent to web hosting companies on 28 April. In the EU there are less amusing comparisons
Turkey Protests New Internet Filters
by Sarah Kessler
Country-Wide Protests: “Don’t Touch the Internet”
Turkey: Protests Against Internet Censorship
Vimeo user Firat Yıldız posted a short video of the May 15 rally in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and Istiklal Avenue, where thousands of people gathered to protest the new internet filtering system, to be introduced in Turkey on Aug. 22
Turkey Protests New Internet Filters
Denmark: Controversial Law Re-Introduces Border Control
Danish nationalist right wing party, The Danish People?s Party (Dansk Folkeparti/DF), recently announced the re-introduction of controls at the country’s borders with Germany and Sweden. The centre-right minority government in Copenhagen capitulated and the proposal went through.
Les Turcs dans la rue pour dénoncer la censure d?internet
Le Progrès (France)
lundi 16 mai 2011, p. IG5
Dans une trentaine de villes de Turquie, des milliers de manifestants sont descendus dans la rue pour protester contre la censure à laquelle sont soumis les sites internet dans ce pays. A Istanbul, près de 5 000 personnes ont investi l?avenue Istiklal, principale artère commerçante de la ville, en scandant « Turquie libre, Internet libre » ou encore « Tayyip, ôte tes pattes de mon Internet », faisant référence au Premier ministre Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
23 SORUDA İNTERNET YASAKLARI
| T24 Genel Yayın Yönetmeni Doğan Akın, 23 soruda “internette sansür? suçlamasına neden olan “filtre” uygulamasını inceledi… |
BEDÜK – Sansure Karsi | Yasaklamak Yasaktir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8j3jPJcuco&NR=1
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