Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


Turkey: YouTube Ban Reinstated

November 4th, 2010 by Evan

Just days after lifting the ban on YouTube, a Turkish court has once again blocked the popular video sharing site over controversial footage of opposition leader Deniz Baykal. “‘We’re back to square one, basically,’” Yaman Akdeniz, a professor of law at Bilgi University in Istanbul, told Eurasianet.org’s Yigal Schleifer. Despite calls from Turkish President Abdullah Gul for reform, the country’s contentious Internet law remains in effect.

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