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Turkey bans Youtube

You can't criticise Turkey's godlike politicians
Friday, 21 September 2007, 11:35
A COURT in Turkey has ordered Youtube to be switched off because it runs clips insulting to leading political figures.

This is the second time the country has blocked Youtube after a complaint that some clips insulted Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. It is a against the law to insult Ataturk which means that the Monty Python team, who claimed he had an entire menagerie called Abdul, should be arrested on sight.

A court in the eastern city of Sivas ordered the block, saying a video on the site insulted Ataturk, President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the army.

Quite how a country which deported the Greek population which helped to build the nation can be so protective of its politicians is uncertain.

Turkey has a long history of censoring things it didn't like for the last five hundred years. Constantinople is now Istanbul and Haga Sophia was converted into a Mosque so that its new owners could pretend that they built it.

More Turkey stuffing here. µ

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whaa?

you says that hagia sophia turned into a mosque. it s now a museum you idiot. and when the spanish ppl destroyed all the stuff about the muslim community in endüljans, turkey protected all the churchs and catredals and sinagog's.

and ow what about the history?ı think u ve a big pain about it. you still dont get over it. what a pitty behaviour. ı m sorry for you and yours sick ideas.

if you wanna find anything about viloence, look at your own history. look at the europen's, american's history, if you can face it!

posted by : crap, 20 January 2008 Complain about this comment
you r right

In the article you said greeks helped build the nations till their soldiers came and killed the innocent Turks ...Also the french and italian and British army was in Turkey if you have read a bit history.

posted by : turk851, 18 January 2008 Complain about this comment
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