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In a clear instance of vexatious litigation, a Turkish court has blocked the Web site of prominent evolutionist Richard Dawkins following complaints from Islamic creationist and author Adnan Oktar. Oktar, who writes under the nom de plume Harun Yahya, filed...
- Posted on 25/Sep/2008; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Defamation, Legislation, Social filtering, Take-down, Turkey -
Turkey has a contentious relationship with popular video-sharing site YouTube. Blocked for the first time in early 2007, YouTube was intermittently available for most of 2007, only to be banned again in January of 2008.
Each time, the...
A group of people gathered in the northwest mountains of Turkey last week – and it wasn’t to cheer on the national football team in the Euro 2008 Cup.
The Eurasia Daily Monitor reports that a group of lawyers, academics,...
- Posted on 27/Jun/2008; tagged in Turkey -
YouTube was blocked again in Turkey on May 6, 2008 following an Ankara court order. YouTube has been banned a number of times in the last two years, usually because of videos offensive to the country hero Kemal Ataturk or to the...
ONI Blog: Turkey's challenge in content controls
Turkey's largest English-language newspaper, the Turkish Daily News, ran an op-ed by John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain today, on the future of the Net and the risk to freedoms of speech and expression. They write:
In Turkey, the...
ONI Blog: thoughts from Turkey
John Palfrey is in Turkey this week, discussing many of the difficult issues surrounding filtering. Read his thoughts here, "Turkey at the Edge".
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