REPORT: TURKEY’S INTERNET CENSORSHIP PROBLEM The Media Association has released a report analyzing the various aspects of the problem of Internet access blocks in Turkey. The report, looking at the Internet as a new conduit, examines Law No. 5651, which regulates the Internet, as well as the current YouTube and Google IP bans, and makes … Read more
ŞAHİN ALPAY – Referendum to further consolidate democracy The military in Turkey staged a coup d?état on Sept. 12, 1980, held power for nearly three years and adopted a highly authoritarian constitution that reinforced the tutelary powers of the military and judiciary over democracy before allowing elections and the reintroduction of multi-party politics. Turkey’s Prime … Read more
İsmail Beşikçi is tried again. A radical intellectual who spent a long amount of his life in prison (17 years)… There is a blog in Turkish (Gerçek İnatçıdır) for a campaign to support İsmail Beşikçi…
It is now legal. Turkish netizens are organizing to march against web censorship on 17 July in Taksim. Organization page here. Banner discussions here.
The Constitutional Court of Turkey has declared parts of the government’s constitutional reform invalid. The press writes that the court has once more overstepped the boundaries of its jurisdiction, but that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan has nevertheless scored a partial victory in his campaign to bring more democracy to the country.
Declaration is first announced in these addresses: (to sign declaration personally click here: http://www.sansursuzinternet.org.tr/) Alternatif Bilişim Özgür Interent Cyber Rights Temel Hak ve Özgürlükler Engellenemez 1. Internet kullanıcılarının düşünce özgürlüğü ve bilgiye erişim hakkı engellenemez. 2. Türkiye?de bireylerin, kurumların, ve şirketlerin bilişim alt yapılarını istedikleri şekilde oluşturmaları ve istedikleri servislerden yararlanmaları engellenemez. Sansür ülke ekonomisine … Read more
Three kingpins of web censorship in Turkey: Fethi Şimşek, Binali Yıldırım, Tayfun Acarer via The meeting took place at Kadir Has University. It has a New Media Department. But the meeting was not explicitly supported by the department. Coffee was not allowed: A person in charge rudely warned me that “Floor has been cleaned and … Read more
Top Statesmen visit the ambushed site … and a few ask why the all powerful Turkish army cannot defend its own soldiers… And the government doesn’t have any other support than its own constituencies. Hard times to be an AKP official. Middle Eastern sympathies cannot become a concrete support in near future, AKP has to … Read more
While businesses are now exposed to economic losses due to the new wave of web censorship, it looks like a small does of revanche was on stage last night. First we thought TİB mistakenly banned itself but later it was announced: It was probably a DoS attack… FF discussions and links to related news here … Read more
In yet another shameful day in Turkish web history, an Ankara prosecutor got the order to ban 44 more IP numbers Google use for YouTube. News source here.
Press release here. Location: Kadir Has Üniversitesi Cibali Kampüsü Date: 19 Haziran 2010 Cumartesi Time: 13:00 – 17:00 An FF discussion here. Turkish Green Party’s anti-web censorship statement here. Internet Sansürüne Karşı Ortak Platform Toplantısı from Sansüre Sansür by miocaro 19 Haziran 2010 tarihinde, Kadir Has Üniversitesinde gerçekleştirilecek olan internet sansürü konulu toplantı pek çok … Read more
Although AKP is not the only culprit.. Wikipedia site on (Internet) Censorship in Turkey Minister’s approach to the ban: Will Google govern this country? Honestly, Google would be more efficient… Binali Yıldırım, the Minister of Transport of Turkey, who is also responsible for Communication Affairs, declared that despite several meetings Google refused to cooperate. Mr. … Read more
Turkey continues to embarrass herself. update: The latest ban comes through Atatürk Thought Association‘s appeal: It appealed the court because of a Google Site that insulted Atatürk. The Court decided to ban all Google Sites:) (Source) A list of 6400 banned site with court decision numbers can be found here. A circulating open letter to … Read more
There have been more than 50 ongoing trials against YouTube and it seems that Turkish authorities stepped up war against Google. Google’s Public DNS numbers are banned now. That means many Google products cannot be accessed: Google Analytics, YouTube, Google Documents, Feedburner, Google Sites, Google Translate. There is a rumor that access to Google itself … Read more