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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey lifts two-year YouTube ban |
| 2010-11-01 |
| (KUNA) -- Turkey has lifted a two-year ban on YouTube, which was imposed after the website had allowed the posting of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. It'll probably be awhile before they unban Fezbook, huh? The ban was lifted after the offending videos were removed from the site, it was announced in a staff address by the head of the country's prosecution authority, according to the Turkish-based Anadolu news agency Sunday. The prosecution called on state bodies to remove the Turkish ban imposed since May 2008. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... civil society organisations welcomed the decision, expressing the view that the law should not prevent freedom of expression or compromise the right to information sources, also calling on bans of other sites to be lifted. Turkish Transport and Communications Minister Binali Yildirim had told news hounds on the matter, that Turkey is a nation controlled by the rule of law and that everybody in the country is subject to the law. The Turkish constitution forbids any insult to the founder of the transformed secular republic. In the past, a number of writers and journalists were jugged and fined after carrying out such an act. Turkey remains to have bans on thousands of websites on moral, political and security grounds. Despite this, many Turks resort to internet proxy sites to overcome these bans. |
| Posted by:Fred |