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INTERNET CENSORSHIP

Ban on YouTube Enters 2nd Year

Activists urge the government to leave content control to citizens and NGOs. Courts can easily ban access to web sites, depending on the law 5651.

The General Staff Denies The Authenticity Of The Photographs In Daily Taraf

The General Staff Denies The Authenticity Of The Photographs In Daily Taraf

The General Staff announced that the photographs published in daily Taraf in connection with PKK’s Aktütün assault did not belong to the assault area. Taraf had claimed they had showed that the assault was known ahead of time.

17 October 2008

Ahmet Insel Says The Government Must Step Up To The Responsibility

Ahmet Insel Says The Government Must Step Up To The Responsibility

Professor Ahmet Insel says government’s stepping aside and letting the General Staff face the public and the media is not an acceptable behavior in democracies.

16 October 2008 Erhan Üstündağ

Newspaper Banned For Publishing Pro-Kurdish Views

The newspaper Alternatif has been banned for publishing the views of Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdish Workers Party, and Murat Karayılan, a high-level officer of the same party.

22 September 2008

Chief Of Staff Refuses Accreditation for Pro-Left Media

Newspapers Birgün, Günlük Evrensel and Hayat TV were not invited to Chief Of Staff İlker Başbuğ’s “communication meeting” with the representatives of the media.

10 September 2008 Erol Önderoğlu

Hundreds Of People Showed Their Support For Hayat TV

Hundreds Of People Showed Their Support For Hayat TV

Non-governmental organizations, professional organizations and many more people gathered in front of Galatasaray High School in Istanbul to support Hayat TV, which was shut down unjustly and suddenly a while ago

24 July 2008 Bawer Çakır

WordPress.com Access Blocked

After a complaint made by Adan Oktar, the website WordPress.com has been blocked to access. This is not the first time that a whole site has been closed down because of the content of one item.

27 August 2007 Erol Önderoğlu

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