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30 MONTH BAN IN TURKEY
Just days after Turkey re-allowed access to YouTube, a decision praised by a European security organization, the popular website has reposted the videos that led to the country's 30-month ban on the site.
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Just days after Turkey re-allowed access to YouTube, a decision praised by a European security organization, the popular website has reposted the videos that led to the country’s 30-month ban on the site.
YouTube reposted the videos, which were deemed by Turkish courts to have insulted the founder of modern Turkey, because they did not violate its copyright rules, a spokeswoman for the company said, according to Bloomberg.
The offending videos were removed in the past week when a company set up in Germany by Turkey’s Internet board used YouTube’s automatic copyright-complaint mechanism to have them taken down. The move set in place a series of decisions in Turkey that ended with an Ankara court lifting the YouTube ban Saturday, allowing users in the country to access the site directly for the first time since May 2008.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation, or OSCE, on Monday welcomed the Ankara court’s decision and urged Turkey to allow access to thousands of other blocked websites.
“I am pleased to hear that after [almost] three years, people in Turkey can once again freely access YouTube,” Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE’s media-freedom representative, said in a statement, Agence France-Presse reported. “I encourage Turkey to continue in this direction by reforming its Internet law and lifting the remaining website bans.”
The ban on YouTube had initially been introduced after an individual complained about clips disrespectful to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the revered founder of the modern Turkish state. Insulting Atatürk is a crime in Turkey.
Thousands of other websites remain blocked, particularly those with content relating to sensitive topics such as Atatürk, the army and minorities.
YouTube, owned by Google Inc., found after investigation that the videos in question did not violate its copyright policies and decided to repost them to make them accessible from outside of Turkey, Özlem Öz, deputy country manager for Grayling Public Relations, which represents Google, said in an e-mailed message late Monday, Bloomberg reported.
YouTube remained accessible from Turkey as of noon Tuesday.
Before the ban, YouTube was the fifth-most popular site in Turkey, according to website ranking firm Alexa.
Turkish President Abdullah Gül has come out against censorship of the Internet, a stumbling block in the country’s bid for European Union membership, and called for a revision of Turkish laws.
HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
YouTube reposted the videos, which were deemed by Turkish courts to have insulted the founder of modern Turkey, because they did not violate its copyright rules, a spokeswoman for the company said, according to Bloomberg.
The offending videos were removed in the past week when a company set up in Germany by Turkey’s Internet board used YouTube’s automatic copyright-complaint mechanism to have them taken down. The move set in place a series of decisions in Turkey that ended with an Ankara court lifting the YouTube ban Saturday, allowing users in the country to access the site directly for the first time since May 2008.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation, or OSCE, on Monday welcomed the Ankara court’s decision and urged Turkey to allow access to thousands of other blocked websites.
“I am pleased to hear that after [almost] three years, people in Turkey can once again freely access YouTube,” Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE’s media-freedom representative, said in a statement, Agence France-Presse reported. “I encourage Turkey to continue in this direction by reforming its Internet law and lifting the remaining website bans.”
The ban on YouTube had initially been introduced after an individual complained about clips disrespectful to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the revered founder of the modern Turkish state. Insulting Atatürk is a crime in Turkey.
Thousands of other websites remain blocked, particularly those with content relating to sensitive topics such as Atatürk, the army and minorities.
YouTube, owned by Google Inc., found after investigation that the videos in question did not violate its copyright policies and decided to repost them to make them accessible from outside of Turkey, Özlem Öz, deputy country manager for Grayling Public Relations, which represents Google, said in an e-mailed message late Monday, Bloomberg reported.
YouTube remained accessible from Turkey as of noon Tuesday.
Before the ban, YouTube was the fifth-most popular site in Turkey, according to website ranking firm Alexa.
Turkish President Abdullah Gül has come out against censorship of the Internet, a stumbling block in the country’s bid for European Union membership, and called for a revision of Turkish laws.
HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
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