Comments on: Blocked in Turkey

By: sazji

sazji — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:32:42 +0000

Blogger.com is now also banned in Turkey, as of yesterday afternoon.

By: manken

manken — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:32:24 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

By: Laic

Laic — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:15:08 +0000

WordPress blocked after lawyers complained that a number of blogs hosted by WordPress were libellous of Islamic creationist author Adnan Oktar.

By: Futbol izle

Futbol izle — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:06:15 +0000

Here all Turkish surfers can find the solution for all their “so to say great firewall” problem. It is easy to fix with DNS management. Go WordPress…

Please visit the following adres for details of adjustment(in Turkish)
http://www.macgunu.com/dns-ayarlari.html

Turkish Translation: WordPress ve benzeri mahkeme karariyla engellenen sitelere girmek için DNS ayarlarinizi düzenlemeniz gerekmektedir. Asagidaki linkten yapmaniz gerekenleri resimli ve detayli bir sekilde ögrenebilirsiniz.
http://www.macgunu.com/dns-ayarlari.html

By: Adnan Oktar, the guy behind the glossy anti-evolution books « Over the River

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:00:39 +0000

[...] Of course you can’t read that one if you are in Turkey, so here is the article from the WordPress editor’s personal blog with people making comments that tell how to get around the [...]

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:48:59 +0000

I suppose they will never open it again. We’re gonna stay without wordpress around here.

It has been 2 months since they blocked it. Some months ago they even closed You Tube but just for a couple of days, as soon as You Tube admin was able to remove the incriminate video. I just don’t get this aggressive behaviour towards WP.

By: Asli Ozcan

Asli Ozcan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:52:26 +0000

I was not aware of this until I recently tried to view CNN’s Political Ticker section. I got the usual access has been suspended message and could not believe my eyes. I wrote to a corporate lawyer in Turk Telekom and he replied explaining the ban on WordPress. CNN Political Ticker uses WordPress too so same ban applies. This is unbelievably stupid and makes me so ashamed of my country. Saddest part is that the guy in question is a well known hoax, a false prophet who feeds on wealthy youngsters. I doubt anything written about him was false to begin with. Even if it were, it makes no sense at all to shutdown the entire site. I have no idea how this works, but it seems to me that, once you are banned, you are banned for good. If you had any presence in Turkey you would of course take legal action and easily win, but since you aren`t here, there is probably nothing you can do. I will talk to my lawyer friends and post again if something comes up.

By: Ã§aydanlÄ±k

Ã§aydanlÄ±k — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:23:45 +0000

It’s been over 2 months now, and I guess they have no intend to open it back again.

By: Access Denied: No Wordpress in Turkey? « Digestion

Access Denied: No Wordpress in Turkey? « Digestion — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:28:21 +0000

[...] was revealed later on that the court action was the result of a complaint filed by Adnan Oktar who uses the [...]

By: Max Muller

Max Muller — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:10:00 +0000

Can we see a copy of the court decision? I have seen several court decisions, and the courts never closes a domain altogether. There must be a mistake. I would be interested to obtain a copy, if available.

By: Kaan

Kaan — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:11:42 +0000

still blocked
we use another dns (4.2.2.1) to access wordpress but this is really annoying.

By: Islamic creationism hasn’t got a blog « lunartalks

Islamic creationism hasn’t got a blog « lunartalks — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:33:52 +0000

[...] Islamic creationism hasn’t got a blog anymore. It did have but it was little more than a reprint of twerpcious Adnan Oktar’s 800 page bilgefest ‘Atlas of Creation’.Â Oktar has something of a reputation, and his Turkish opponents started a few blogs pointing this out.Â As a result he went a-whining to the Turkish courts and got WordPress banned in that candidate member of the EU, Turkey. WordPress have suspended his blog.Â I’m not much in favour of censorship, but this man is a well-funded theistic twerp who can buy his own airtime rather than hooching off WP’s generosity.Â Latest updates on the turkey that is Turkey’s judicial system and the WP block here. [...]

By: Timur

Timur — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:44:51 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

By: Doxaliber - Lo strillone del web » Come si aggira la censura? Facile: clonando i siti web!

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:34:15 +0000

[...] qui potete leggere che ci sono 12 milioni di pageview mensili dalla Turchia a wordpress.com, e siccome noi non siamo wordpress, non possiamo permetterci tutto questo consumo di banda, le pubblicitÃ di google sono li per questo, ed attualmente qualsiasi tipo di sito proxy ha tali pubblicitÃ . [...]

By: anonymousbusta

anonymousbusta — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:58:56 +0000

They guy should not loose his job for a simple mistake. who cares wordpress gets blocked for a couple of hours.

By: Liza

Liza — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:58:05 +0000

I know this may sound silly, but cant Turkish users bypass the block with, let’s say, US-based proxy service/site?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:01:25 +0000

This wont stop the problem, i hear this also is happening in China, as i said this wont stop the problem at all.

Also do Turkish people know they can use proxy services?

By: Comp. Forensic Analyst

Comp. Forensic Analyst — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:49:54 +0000

Turkish government has a new law about blocking the sites -which has not been started to be practiced yet- for these kind of court decisions.

Firstly: The site (related to the decision) must be noticed about the decision.

Second, the site will be blocked (particularly -subdomain-) after a reasonable time.

So there is a very new presidency about this and they are still researching stages about judicial blocking without censorship.

I am not interested in Adnan Oktar but if there is a court decision, it must be executed with reasonable ways. Not by blocking the whole site without warning, of course.

BUT from now on the WordPress should want a copy of the court decision, – as YouTube did once, just like in Brasil or in a local Australian court decisions – then block that page onlyâ€¦ The users problem is not with the WordPress’ but with Turkey’s internal laws and also other international laws which Turkey accepted.

Temporarily, this is the right thing to do, I think, as Youtube did with its law dep. in Turkey a few months agoâ€¦

By: ahmet alp balkan

ahmet alp balkan — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:25:32 +0000

Yes, there are some bigotry religious people in Turkey and they don’t like being criticized for “thinking people”. This is only lack of knowledge of lawyers about “what is internet”…

By: simon templar

simon templar — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:41:08 +0000

I find wordpress not defiant but ignorant on the issue. Obviously doing nothing does not help thousands of Turkish bloggers.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:12:45 +0000

Matt remains defiant… English translation of interview first published in Turkish:

http://jimcolella.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/wordpress-we-will-never-limit-turkish-bloggers-freedom-of-speech/

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:22:15 +0000

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By: bugsey

bugsey — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:56:12 +0000

I think that it’s TIME we support these people. Freedom of expression is an individual right and every THINKING person has a right to it. It’s sad that Turkish authorities think that censorship of the internet would “help”. It will only exacerbate the “want” of people to access more information. I say UPHOLD FREE EXPRESSION in the planet!

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