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Breaking News : First YouTube now Google being banned in Turkey

Turkey is has blocked access to services of Internet search engine giants, Google.

Google-bannedThe Telecommunication and communication Ministry (TIB), a government body that can control Internet accessibility in Turkey are attempting to block certain IP’s (Internet Protocol Addresses) belonging to Google due to “legal reason”.

Some ADSL company’s and Internet services providers have sent their customers E-mail’s and letters informing them of inaccessibility or the slow use of certain Google services.

Turkey have already received criticism for Internet censorship after the ban of video sharing giants YouTube along with certain other websites.

TIB has also tried to block Facebook several times.

The Google accessibility problems started Thursday night where several Internet users in Turkey were unable to access Google.com.tr or suffered serious delays in the pages and services being uploaded.

One Internet Service provider sent this information to its users warning of some service problems that may be experienced.
*Accessibility problems to Google.
*Web portals and sites which use Google Analytics (the Google service which analyzes ad’s, visitor quantity, etc) along with Google Maps may have slow services.
*Some websites which use Google Toolbar may be slow to access.
* Some websites which have been integrated according to Google may be effected.

The shock decision to block Google came after Telecommunication Ministry started to block IP addresses of the websites rather than the DNS of the websites as of 31 May.

What is the reason behind the latest Internet Censorship
It is alleged that due to several countries around the world banning popular Internet sites such as Google owned YouTube, Google have changed the IP addresses of YouTube to ones used by Google to try and tackle the problem.

internet_censorshipOver this procedure by Google, the Telecommunication and communication Ministry in Turkey has blocked certain IP address belonging to Google in an attempt to stop accessibility to YouTube.

So in other words while trying to stop accessibility to YouTube, Google is having a knock on effect.

This latest Internet censorship has been met with outrage in Turkey. Many had already criticized the blocking of YouTube but with Google, Turkey’s most used Internet Search engine and site having problems, Turkish Internet users are planning to protest.

The banning may also have an effect on the growing economy of Turkey as several businesses are also expected to be affected by this decision by TIB, as many depend on Google for customers.

Turkey’s laws on Internet censorship has been debated may times as an entire website can be banned by the content on a single page.

YouTube was banned in the country after several complaints by users after video’s insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, which is an offence in the country were uploaded on the popular Video Sharing Website.

However, protesters of the decision are saying it is up to the people if they decide to watch such content or not. Many people in Turkey have already protested Internet Censorship and Freedom of Speech

Many Internet users had tackled the ban of YouTube by changing their DNS numbers or by using software that cracks the inaccessibility, but journalists and freedom of speech supporters are urging people to protest the ban’s rather than finding alternative ways to access banned sites.

Google services which are operating slowly or being banned by TIB
code.google.com
pages.google.com
video.google.com
translate.google.com.tr
docs.google.com
sites.google.com
books.google.com
chrome.google.com
sketchup.google.com
froogle.google.com
labs.google.com
mars.google.com
moon.google.com
notebook.google.com
toolbar.google.com
browsersync.google.com
catalog.google.com
codesearch.google.com
dir.google.com
earth.google.com
groups.google.com.tr
shopping.google.com
sky.google.com
tools.google.com
wap.google.com
answers.google.com
google-analystics.com

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  2. Why is Turkey not part of Google Earth’s Street View? It is a shame Turkey is losing out on billions of Lire merely because people cannot take tours of Turkey at the Street Level in order to look at hotels, resorts, and places they may have visit (like me) in their earlier years and want to visit again. Without any ability to get down to street level in Turkey, it becomes among the very few countries on earth not to allow that wonderful feature. Who may I contact to encourage a change in that policy?

  3. These sites often over step the boundary of freedom to plain insults. I am not surprised at these bans and the ISP’s should know they do not have a free reign and the same rules that apply to media outlets should apply here. That way porn and other filth on the internet can be cleared out.

  4. come on Turkey. this move of banning google IP addresses is not a good move, especially since we want to set a good example of a modern muslim country who is founded on the basis of democracy and not old fashioned islam values. We want to be a leader in the muslim world yet if we do things like blocking google, we are no different to other 3rd world countries who choose to do the same things.

  5. There are no words to describe such kind of behaviour. What are they afraid of? To show their dirties clothes to the public word? All countries have rubbish of their own, so what? They are dictators or perfectly ignorant persons. Since they dont know what to do they lock up everything. I repeat, what are they afraid of? What do they want to hide?

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