YouTube unBaned in Turkey

Sat, Mar 10, 2007

Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube Friday, according to an official for the country's largest telecommunications corporation - Turk Telekom, two days after a court ordered the website blocked because of videos that allegedly insulted the founder of modern Turkey.

Business Week reports that "the ban had been condemned by the press freedom group Reporters without Borders and drew attention to Turkey's shaky record on permitting free expression" and "it is illegal in Turkey to insult Ataturk, a revered figure whose image graces every denomination of currency and whose portrait hangs in nearly all government offices."

Source: Businessweek

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