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I can’t vouch for the information as I don’t live in Turkey, but I’ve just found out that Turkey has blocked Google.com Google Groups from internet access for it’s citizens. See:
See this link for extra confirmation of the ban. It also means that while Jillian Greenwood may write fondly of her Turkish experiences, along with thousands of other British travellers, if they now pop into an internet cafe, their Google and YouTube queries or postings will draw a blank. This is one measure of freedom in my book and puts a big question mark over Turkey’s status. BTW, there’s even a Google Treasure Chest connection here, because Turkey controls the northern part of Nicosia, Cyprus, which contains some of the addresses used in the GTC scam. Amazon Related:
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Posted on 15:53, July 15th, 2009 by 
Now this is quite serious – and weird. Turkey, after all, contains NATO/US rocket bases and even wishes to join the EU. Peace, friendship, allying and self-protection are all wonderful things. But for most of them, we need some form of common value system.
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Oy! Enough of the pillorying! Or however you spell it! Wozza Turkey’s alright. They’ve already banned Youtube ages ago anyway, so what’s one more anti-internet thingy?
In context, tho I am not agreeing with Turkey’s position, I did visit Youtube a lot and did searches on ‘Turkey’ and such. Unfortunately I got a bunch of young and incredibly attractive Kurdish men doing striptease, transvestites in Istanbul bars (a national speciality, loved by all apparently) and several hundred half-dressed Turkish women offering themselves for marriage to EU members’ members. Strange place Turkey. Lots going on.
In its internet favour, the use of the net is ubiquitous. There’s a internet cafe on every street corner, every household seems to be online, and you will have access in every hotel room. It’s a national obsession.
We need to understand these things in context. Perhaps people in Turkey could leave a comment and explain to us what is really going on? If they can get through, that is!
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ps just found out it’s ‘google groups’ which is banned, not the whole of the search engine.
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Yes that’s right. I meant to re-visit this posting and amend it, but forgot… Google groups is networking etc, so I wonder if facebook etc are hampered in the same way? The YouTube block is obviously to limit access to politically charged videos which abound.
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I try to keep up with the latest and provided a solid link to more info about the banning. As Jillian comments, it’s true that Turkey has everything across media and workable and searchable; however, it doesn’t mean that Turkey doesn’t routinely have crazies bringing lawsuits to ensure one more thing is censored. Never does anyone, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Wordpress, etc., ever get a chance to defend themselves. Really too bad; and yes, these bans and censors, do impact the knowledge that the Turkish population can have access to at any point in time. IFEX always has the latest on human rights, which is the link I provided in my post. Cheers!
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Thanks @Bea
It may seem flippant, but this censorship, enacted from as you say in little more than magistrate’s courts, means that Turkish citizens are banned from accessing the delights of the Eurovision Song Contest tunes on YouTube and thus have to go elsewhere…
This is the Turkish entry:
n.b. I’m not commenting on artistic or relative merits at all with this. We in the UK have a somewhat jaundiced view of the whole affair… But the point that vast swathes of their culture is shrouded from view, is valid.
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