Turkey And Blasphemy
January 29, 2015
A Turkish court has asked US-based social website, Facebook, to locally block access to pages considered blasphemous towards Prophet Muhammad and religion, or face a complete ban in the country. In March 2013, the Turkish government blocked access to Twitter and YouTube, following leaks posted on them of senior officials discussing Turkey’s plans regarding military action in Syria and audio recordings of individuals who are close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Although the country’s Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutuglo, attended the solidarity march in favour of free speech in the wake of the attack on satirical magazine Cherlie Hebdo in Paris, he has defended the court’s verdict since he believes that freedom of express should not be used to insult others’ religion.
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