Comments on: Turkey Blocks Wordpress.com Hosted Blogs

By: censorship//inaugural post « Letto

censorship//inaugural post « Letto — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:48:28 +0000

[...] current ban was instigated a religious/defamation conflict via Adnan Oktar and his lawyers. Help-Pakistan writes: the new Turkish Pro-Islamic Government has now decided to clamp down on all blogs hosted [...]

By: The Uncultured Project » Living with Censorship

The Uncultured Project » Living with Censorship — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:59:43 +0000

[...] is not something new – Pakistan and Turkey do it presently for WordPress.com (and, previously, were also blocking Blogspot.com). But, sometimes – as it seems to be in this case – this was just a technical glitch that affected [...]

By: Jim Colella

Jim Colella — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:13:49 +0000

the serious piece of disinformation that WordPress (WP) was not blocked came before WP revealed the reason for the block 3 days after it all began:

http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/08/19/why-were-blocked-in-turkey

so IGNORE IT. IT IS WRONG. WP is still very much blocked i am in Turkey so i should know… as is Yahoo-owned Flickr Blog also blocked now. full stories here:

http://www.nowpublic.com/now-its-flickr-blog-blocked-turkey

http://www.nowpublic.com/petition-launched-unblock-wordpress-turkey

http://www.nowpublic.com/first-sign-islamist-censorship-secular-turkey

http://www.nowpublic.com/islamic-creationist-blocks-wordpress-turkey

http://www.nowpublic.com/wordpress-com-blocked-turkey

by the way, there is more than one blog named by the lawyers for Adnan Oktar at the root of this ban.

a petition to get our access in Turkey unblocked has been launched by the MidEast Youth project, who successfully overturned the ban on youTube in Morrocco a while back:

http://www.mideastyouth.com/petitions/view_petition/PET13433106/Petition_to_Unblock_WordPress_in_Turkey.htm

thanks very much for your call for support. i take it blogspot in Pakistan is still blocked one year on?