A court in Istanbul has issued an order denying access to the video-sharing website YouTube. The state owned Turk Telecom implemented the ban today after an escalating dispute between Greek and Turkish users of the site.
The court order was issued yesterday and most internet users logging onto the site in Turkey are met with a holding page with a Turkish message, which translates as: “Access to this site has been denied by court order ! ...”.
Greek and Turkish YouTube users have been trading video insults over the past few months, attracting much coverage in the Turkish press. Greek videos reportedly accused the founding president of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, of homosexuality; a Turkish user responded by calling Greece the birthplace of homosexuality. (...)
Here is the Times' article.
Discovered in Metroblogging Istanbul.
2 comentários:
fuqing! court!!
Incredible. It's October now and 7 months after it's still happening. I was calmly logging on to bwin on my laptop at an Istanbul hotel and there it was: "Bu siteye erişim mahkeme kararıyla engellenmiştir"
Not knowing what this meant I searched the net and found this post. Thanks for enlightening me... the stupid minds never cease to astonish me!
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