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YouTube turns lock again in Turkey
news 05/11/2010
Just days after several years in Turkey blocking YouTube was lifted, the video portal of a new block apparently escaped narrowly. Reason for the new problems was a compromising video of a Turkish politician.
The video allegedly the Turkish opposition leader Deniz Baykal and his beloved shown in a hotel room. The longtime chairman of the opposition party CHP was on learning of the videos resigned in May. Turkish websites of the video then was gone. Due to the end of the YouTube block last weekend but it was reopened to Turkish internet users.
Baykal's lawyers turned to the reason of a court in Ankara, which called on the Turkish Telecommunications Authority to remove the video in question. If the video portal not cope with the demand that Turkish Internet providers would need, to block access to YouTube. The authority sought by the Court to contact in contacts with Youtube the new ban. According to the Turkish newspaper Radikal YouTube in Turkey on Thursday afternoon was still online.
Just a few days ago that has more than two years, blocking of YouTube in Turkey has been lifted. The video portal was to be closed in early 2008 for Turkish internet users. At the blockade, it was because of videos that the Turkish government had considered as a serious insult to the state's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. After the Turkish legislation, the denigration of Turkishness and Ataturk is set to be punishable.
Turkey still remain more than 5,000 websites for Turkish Internet users blocked, as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in June 2010 announced. The reasons for a lock of websites in Turkey are pornography, gambling and prohibited political content. The Turkish government had announced in July to step up surveillance of the Internet with a new police unit on. Given by the Interior and Justice Ministry, a "center for IP prosecution" should be established.
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