FT.com / Media – Turkey to face European Court on YouTube ban By David O’Byrne in Istanbul Published: November 30 2009 16:57 | Last updated: November 30 2009 16:57 Turkey’s controversial censorship of the internet…
Telephone tapping in Turkey; a measure to intimidate the judiciary?: “ The issue is tapping of telephones and other electronic communications between the citizens of Turkey. The problem reached scandal proportions with revelations that judges,…
TSK’s Web site plan not based on legal grounds, observers say: “TSK’s Web site plan not based on legal grounds, observers say 10 November 2009, Tuesday NERGİHAN ÇELEN / DİLEK HAYIRLI İSTANBUL A large number…
New letter reveals top army brass involvement in plot Zaman, 05 November 2009, Thursday BETÜL AKKAYA DEMIRBAŞ İSTANBUL New letter reveals top army brass involvement in plot – A second letter written by an unnamed…
Response to The Register story entitled “Turkey censors Reg commentards” published on 28 October, 2009. Dear Sirs, I am the director of Cyber-Rights.Org based in the UK and its sister organisation Cyber-Rights.Org.TR based in Turkey….
Turkey criticized for blocking access to websites By Yigal Schleifer Oct 9, 2009, 2:08 GMT Istanbul – For Turkish internet users, it’s an image that’s becoming increasingly familiar: at many websites, instead of a homepage,…
On 22 September 2009 I estimated that access to at least 6000 websites are blocked from Turkey. That was followed by the infamous blocking decisions involving both myspace.com and Last.fm from Turkey. During this weekend…
Yaman Akdeniz, an Associate Professor of law at the Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University today (29 September, 2009) made an appeal to the Beyoglu Criminal Court of Peace to overturn the blocking decision involving…
MÜYAP: No Intention to Block Access to Last FM and MySpace: “MÜYAP chairman Forta claimed: ‘Ownership rights are stolen, we fight for our right. Turkish law blocked access to the websites’. Forta argued that MÜYAP…
Copyright Protection Without Harm to Freedom of Speech: “In the course of the discussion of blocked access to the entire contents of MySpace, RSF pointed out that the Turkish Internet legislation violates the European Convention…