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Thursday, January 24, 2008

SPELLING SEPARATISM WITH A “W”: TURKEY STILL STRUGGLING WITH FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION - Eurasia Daily Monitor

"SPELLING SEPARATISM WITH A “W”: TURKEY STILL STRUGGLING WITH FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

By Gareth Jenkins

Thursday, January 24, 2008

On the evening of January 23, a court in Ankara decided to reverse a previous ruling and allow the population of Turkey to visit YouTube. For the previous four days all access to the popular video-sharing site had been blocked by a previous court ruling on the grounds that one of the videos insulted the memory of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881–1938), who founded the modern Turkish Republic in 1923."

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