This blog is banned in Turkey????
So I have arrived back in England after a two week visit to Turkey a country which I absolutely love, I am one hundred percent self confessed Turkophile. However whilst I was there I tried to update this blog with some random ramblings about what I was up to out there and was met with the following message:
Bu siteye erişim mahkeme kararıyla engellenmiştir.
T.C. Diyarbakır 1. Sulh Ceza Mahkemesi 20.10.2008 tarih ve 2008/2761 sayılı kararı gereği bu siteye erişim engellenmiştir.
Access to this web site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2008/2761 of T.R. Diyarbakır 1st Criminal Court of Peace.
My first reaction was confusion, surely there must be some mistake but no, I tried clicking the link again and was met with the same message. My second reaction was akin to some kind of violent suppressed rage as it dawned on me just how wide and indiscriminate the website ban in Turkey was, I mean I had heard talk about You tube being inaccessible due to a slanging match between Greeks and Turks in which the Greeks had besmirched the name of the great Atatürk and the Turks had accused Greece of being the birthplace of homosexuality.But I had not realised how deep this went I actually felt that I had been violated by the state, how dare they impede on my freedom of expression albeit only for two weeks. A feeling suffered by the Turkish people on a daily basis, the Turks I spoke with are deeply angry about this and see it as another attack of state paranoia. As far as I can gather this overreaction blanket ban on all blogger.com sites is temporary and is a result of illegal streaming of football games, but what about the other 850 websites that are banned? Most are speculating that this is a way to suppress and censor political speech thinly disguised as way to ”prevent access to primarily pornographic and obscene web content”.
It is also possible for individuals to petition the courts personally on the basis of slander to get individual websites barred.
Turkish transportation Minister Binali Yildirim has been quoted in the Turkish daily news as saying the bans were to “encourage the appropriate use of the Internet for the betterment of society” and “The spirit and purpose of the law is to make civil society and public administration work together and thus keep the bans to as low a number as possible, bringing precautions to the forefront”
Bu siteye erişim mahkeme kararıyla engellenmiştir.
T.C. Diyarbakır 1. Sulh Ceza Mahkemesi 20.10.2008 tarih ve 2008/2761 sayılı kararı gereği bu siteye erişim engellenmiştir.
Access to this web site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2008/2761 of T.R. Diyarbakır 1st Criminal Court of Peace.
My first reaction was confusion, surely there must be some mistake but no, I tried clicking the link again and was met with the same message. My second reaction was akin to some kind of violent suppressed rage as it dawned on me just how wide and indiscriminate the website ban in Turkey was, I mean I had heard talk about You tube being inaccessible due to a slanging match between Greeks and Turks in which the Greeks had besmirched the name of the great Atatürk and the Turks had accused Greece of being the birthplace of homosexuality.But I had not realised how deep this went I actually felt that I had been violated by the state, how dare they impede on my freedom of expression albeit only for two weeks. A feeling suffered by the Turkish people on a daily basis, the Turks I spoke with are deeply angry about this and see it as another attack of state paranoia. As far as I can gather this overreaction blanket ban on all blogger.com sites is temporary and is a result of illegal streaming of football games, but what about the other 850 websites that are banned? Most are speculating that this is a way to suppress and censor political speech thinly disguised as way to ”prevent access to primarily pornographic and obscene web content”.
It is also possible for individuals to petition the courts personally on the basis of slander to get individual websites barred.
Turkish transportation Minister Binali Yildirim has been quoted in the Turkish daily news as saying the bans were to “encourage the appropriate use of the Internet for the betterment of society” and “The spirit and purpose of the law is to make civil society and public administration work together and thus keep the bans to as low a number as possible, bringing precautions to the forefront”
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