{"id":63125,"date":"2015-01-16T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T12:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=63125"},"modified":"2017-03-23T16:28:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:28:37","slug":"turkey-owner-of-online-dictionary-site-itu-sozluk-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=63125","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: Owner of online dictionary site questioned over Prophet Mohammed post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_63108\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mediafreedom.ushahidi.com\/search?k=Turkey%3A&amp;b=Search\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63108\" class=\"wp-image-63108\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/turkey-011515.jpg\" alt=\"Caption\" width=\"700\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/turkey-011515.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/turkey-011515-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/turkey-011515-283x200.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Index on Censorship&#8217;s project to map media violations in the European Union and candidate countries has recorded <a href=\"http:\/\/mediafreedom.ushahidi.com\/search?k=Turkey%3A&amp;b=Search\">74 incidents in Turkey since May 2014<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00c7a\u011fatay G\u00fcrt\u00fcrk, owner of the collaborative dictionary website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itusozluk.com\/\">IT\u00dc S\u00f6zl\u00fck<\/a>, was detained while trying to enter Turkey on the night of January 14. Authorities were investigating a posting on the site that allegedly &#8220;humiliating&#8221; to the Prophet Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00fcrt\u00fcrk was released shortly after and published an open letter to the press on IT\u00dc S\u00f6zl\u00fck&#8217;s website saying that the website has been involved in lawsuits over the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00fcrt\u00fcrk also wrote on the website, &#8220;The freedom to disseminate thought is a universal and constitutional right and people&#8217;s websites have become the most valuable tools in the world to use this freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2015\/01\/turkey-owner-of-online-dictionary-site-itu-sozluk-detained\">This article was posted on January 16, 2015 at indexoncensorship.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c7a\u011fatay G\u00fcrt\u00fcrk, owner of the collaborative dictionary website IT\u00dc S\u00f6zl\u00fck, was detained while trying to enter Turkey on the night of January 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6564,55],"tags":[6876,7355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87108,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63125\/revisions\/87108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}