Turkey lifts two-year ban on YouTube
 

Turkey has lifted its ban on YouTube, two years after it blocked access to the website because of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder.

Transport Minister Binali Yildirim, who is in charge of internet issues, said the government had been in contact with Google, which owns YouTube.

Mr Yildirim said there was no longer any reason to ban the website, because the offending videos had been removed.

Insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk or "Turkishness" is illegal in Turkey.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11659816


Note:30 October 2010 Last updated at 22:11 GM

I thought they banned it because of Turkish Star Wars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx7PYAAOwxE

:haha: :haha:

somebody's trying to get into the EU.

but a country that has laws over criticizing it's leader or it's "Turkishness" is clearly not EU material

Apparently good attempt, many think , and then put down the handset....

:har: Still better than episode I:shifty:.

When I go to bed, I'll sleep beter knowing this. :O:

That whole country is going to shut down, cuz they got a lot of videos to watch.:woot:

Yes if it produces things like this video, so, it will take a long time for a possible entry into the EU, :yawn:

Turkey didn't ban youtube, youtube banned Turkey for this creation!

I did not know, thanks for the information, :yep:

Report: YouTube Faces New Ban in Turkey
 

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's telecommunications authority will again block access to YouTube unless the video-sharing site removes a sex video of a former opposition party leader, the state-run news agency reported Tuesday.

The threat of a new ban comes just three days after Turkey had ended a more than two-year ban on YouTube.

The Anatolia news agency said a court, considering a complaint by lawyers representing former opposition party leader Deniz Baykal, ruled that YouTube must be blocked and notified the telecommunications authority of its decision on Tuesday.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11...ew-ban-turkey/


Note:Published November 02, 2010

maybe Turkey will ban subsim until we remove this thread :hmmm:

:haha:
though we don't have a single Turkish member

:haha: