yaman akdeniz

Attempt to ban CHP deputy’s personal website… Towards worse web censorship…

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Some friends argue that in the last wave of website bans Palo Alto Networks are involved… However, no certain evidence…  CHP deputy head reveals robbery, says ban on personal website a sign of ?pressure?   ‘We reported the robbery to the police, I did not dwell upon it too much. But when you look at the … Read more

Youtube partially blocked. Turkish government is messing up with our Internet Freedom. Current situation

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A few hours ago two ISPs, Turknet and Uydunet announced blockage. Not other ISPs yet apply the court rule. A few days ago Vimeo was blocked first, then unblocked. But particular videos could be blocked in Vimeo and other video sharing sites. Government’s excuse is to block sex videos of government officials but as one … Read more

The ban itself sued, Petition campaign and web censorship in Turkish humor magazine covers.

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More than 6 thousand sites are banned in Turkey...
More than 6 thousand sites are banned in Turkey...

Academic asks Turkish court to overturn Myspace and Last.fm blocking decisions

Yaman Akdeniz, an Associate Professor of law at the Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University today (29 September, 2009) made an appeal to the Beyoğlu Criminal Court of Peace to overturn the blocking decision involving both myspace.com and Last.fm from Turkey. The blocking decision was enforced by the Turkish ISPs since Friday, 18 September, 2009 by the order of the Beyoğlu Chief Public Prosecutor?s Office (order no 2009/45 dated 26.06.2009).

Petition against Internet Censorship in Turkey here.

Cover page of Penguen magazine’s latest issue satirizes the ban.
and these are from the older covers that were related to previous bans…