Turkish court orders access to YouTube blocked

[eugenlitwin]

ISTANBUL, Turkey: A Turkish court ordered access to YouTube's Web site blocked on Wednesday, after a prosecutor recommended the ban because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Paul Doany, head of Turk Telekom, Turkey's largest telecommunications provider, said his company had immediately begun enforcing the ban.

"We are not in the position of saying that what YouTube did was an insult, that it was right or wrong," Doany said in remarks to the state-run Anatolia news agency. "A court decision was proposed to us, and we are doing what that court decision says."

Doany said Turk Telekom would allow access to the popular video sharing site again if the court decision were rescinded. Access from Turkey might be possible through other service providers, he said.

Over the past week, Turkish media publicized what some called a "virtual war" between Greeks and Turks on YouTube, with people from both sides posting videos to belittle and berate the other.

The video prompting the ban allegedly said Ataturk and the Turkish people were homosexuals, news reports said. The CNN-Turk Web site featured a link allowing Turks to complain directly to YouTube about the "insult."

On its front page on Wednesday, the newspaper Hurriyet said thousands of people had written to YouTube and that the Ataturk videos had been removed from the site. "YouTube got the message," the headline said.

Insulting Ataturk or "Turkishness" is a crime in Turkey punishable by prison.

Turkey, which hopes to join the European Union, has been roundly condemned for not doing enough to curb extreme nationalist sentiments and to protect freedom of expression.

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[sorgul]

unbelievable ...then again turks are ...welll TURKS..and so expect the unexpected form these morons

[eugenlitwin]

unbelievable ...then again turks are ...welll TURKS..and so expect the unexpected form these morons

Man Not acting like a turks do, they say “what else do you expect from them - they are kurds”.

Actually this is the great example of general institutional crisis in turkish “secular” republic, they need a “holly Ataturk” as crater of modern turkey with out it…

[Balci]

again, shows how ''democratic'' that land is, banning youtube... lawl...

[sorgul]

unbelievable ...then again turks are ...welll TURKS..and so expect the unexpected form these morons

Man Not acting like a turks do, they say “what else do you expect from them - they are kurds”.

Actually this is the great example of general institutional crisis in turkish “secular” republic, they need

Dont ever ever ever compare me with turks ---Xude naket---...even the ones that act like they have sense turn out to be rotten once u get to know them better!