Turkey lifts YouTube ban

01 Nov 2010

After being blocked for two years YouTube can now be accessed again by Turkish citizens.  The Google-owned site was originally banned in May 2008 under a 2007 law that allowed courts to block any website where there was “sufficient suspicion” that it had committed a crime. YouTube was accused of hosting videos that insulted the country’s founder, Kemal Ataturk, an offence in Turkey.  The minister in charge of internet issues, Binali Yildirim, has said that the offending videos have been removed.

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