Hackers warn Turkish censorship authorities

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

19 July: A major meeting against web censorship

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

the Minister uses nationalist rhetoric to justify web censorship

Binalı Yıldırım may be right in wanting Google to be a taxpayer like in many other countries. But is this the way to demand? Latest censorship wave had some substantive impact on newly emerging digital economies in Turkey (digital agencies’ statement here) and the minister relies on the most primitive rhetoric to justify his unjustifiable desire to break the netizenship of Turkey. Good for you Mr. Yıldırım…

Friendfeed discussions on minister’s rhetoric here, and here. Google officials seem to have decided Turkish netizens as they are meeting with the Minister soon.

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Making fun of the ban. Here is the “National Search Engine”: Millimotor

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Turkish judiciary wages war against Google and What to do?

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

Elif’s weekly roundup: Internet freedom party etc.

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Get the ?Freedom to Internet Party? started!

One of the Istanbul- Taksim?s  most  popular night club which often hosts interesting events and concerts has organized a special night called ?Freedom to Internet? party a few nights ago. I couldn?t be there, but I find the idea really interesting because it?s a really ironic, meaningful and also enjoyable way of protesting the censorship of internet in Turkey.

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WordPress founder in Turkey, a slide on Facebook Turkey stats and more..

Matt Mullenweg lecturing on 29 May. Contact info. Facebook Turkey stats here. ***************************** The Partisan Internet and the Wider World from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan Is the internet making us more partisan? This is one of the most persistent debates in the study of cyberspace. Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, author and now Administrator … Read more

Turks at Twitter: #Recep Bey, @notredamedesion @ahmethc @cbabdullahgul- Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (9)

New CHP leader’s addressing of PM Erdoğan as “Recep Bey” became a Twitter phenomena a few days ago (The Istanbulian: What Is Recep Bey?) AKP members responded by setting up a website called Recep Bey (http://www.recepbey.com/) and began striking back. In the mean time, Kılıçdaroğu gained quite a number of fans at Facebook (Turkish opposition … Read more

Turkish intervention to Twitter (!)

update:

Turkish student apologises for ‘bringing down Twitter’ but denies being a hacker

Twitter hacked by Turkish people

from “Online and offline are siblings” (Social media proverb.)

I wouldn’t call them hackers. Some folks discovered a way to make everyone they want follow themselves, and they even made this trick public.

it looks like the Turkish guy was an Accept fan:

ACCEPT fan causes Twitter to explode

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Workshop on Article 5651 and more from Turkish cybersphere/ Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (8)

A workshop on Turkey internet related 5651 article is taking place. This seems to be a major event as can be seen from the impressive list of participants. Major actors of Turkish internet infrastructure… Still, the official website is only in Turkish…

In other news:

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Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (5)- Tivibu and more…

Dear readers, would you let me know of new sites and blogs I haven’t mentioned yet for the next issues of this series of posting… TTNET, the major ADSL provider, launched a website, Tivibu, to watch TV channels online. First mostly positive impressions in Turkish here. Most visited Turkish news sites according to ComScore: Hurriyet.com.tr, Milliyet.com.tr, … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (4)

* ? Turkish internet users have recently performed a virtual protest against web censorship: Visualize Dissent: Turkish Users Protest Censorship Using Google Maps * Turkish web enterpreneurship site etohum announced 15 web projects it will support in 2010. * Madde Bağımlısı announced 8 most creative blogs here. * Webrazzi announced a number of successful web … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (3)- Turkish online news sites and more

A list of Turkish online news sites. Not necessarily the completed list. All new additions are welcome. Aktif Haber Açık İstihbarat BIANET Boyut Haber Cafe Siyaset Dünya Bülteni En Son Haber EtikHaber GazeteDergi.com gazetem.net Gazeteport Gazeteciler Gerçek Gündem: Haber3.com Haber7 Haberkenti Haberler.Com HABERTÜRK haberciler.com Haber Vitrini Haber X Haksöz Haber İnternethaber iyibilgi.com Kodadimedya.com Leyditurk.com MEDYATAVA … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (2)

Part I was received well now comes the second part: A very extensive conference on Internet will take place on 12-13 December at Bilgi U. I-net 2009 program can be found here. New design for Kreavitme – A successful markeing blog. Özlem Hoşcan’s site/blog on marketing with an emphasis on social media. A cool activistic … Read more

Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (1)

I have been saving material about Turkish websites or blogs or e-discussions for a while. Let me offer them to my readers. This is by no means a comprehensive list. But of course I will do my best to find whatever I can find.

As I have recently noted, Turks like to have good productive discussions in Friendfeed. In one of the most recent one, people discuss Google Public DNS. (In Turkish)

Mavi Boncuk offered us 10 Best Blogs from Turkey. I don’t know what criteria they used but some deserve to be in the best list for sure. These are all in Turkish:

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ComScore report's Turkey section…

Webrazzi analysesthe ComScore report’s Turkey section (in Turkish). I quote the statistics from the report…

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