Turkey bans YouTube
p2pnet.net news:- YouTube has been suspended in Turkey because some clips insult former Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
“According to Turkish media, there has been a ‘virtual war’ between Greek and Turkish users of the site, with both sides posting insulting videos,” says the BBC.
“The clip prompting the ban reportedly dubbed Ataturk and Turks homosexuals” and, “Insulting Ataturk, the founding father of modern Turkey, or ‘Turkishness’ is an offence which can result in a prison sentence.”
The New York Times’ TheLede suggests readers, “might recall that the move seems to make sense in Turkey, where it is illegal to ‘insult Turkishness’ under a controversial law,” the same decree, “under which the Turkish writer Hrant Dink was convicted last year” and which, “may well have contributed, critics have charged, to the hostile atmosphere” that led a “youthful gunman” to kill himself in January.
Turkey has repeatedly promised to amend the bill, in part because it has been hindering the country’s already slow-moving bid to join the European Union, says the story.
Also See:
BBC – Turkish court bans YouTube access, March 7, 2007
TheLede – YouTube Banned in Turkey After Insults to Ataturk, March 7, 2007
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