{"id":39542,"date":"2013-06-27T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=39542"},"modified":"2013-06-27T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T11:21:55","slug":"turkey-protestsfacebook-is-shared-with-the-turkish-government-personal-informations-breaking-news-39542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-protestsfacebook-is-shared-with-the-turkish-government-personal-informations-breaking-news-39542\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Protests:Facebook is shared with the Turkish government personal informations ? \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facebook alleges that the Turkish government giving protesters’ personal information.<\/h1>\n

Facebook says it has not provided any user data to Turkish authorities in response to protest-related requests. It comes after a Turkish minister said the social media site has been cooperative \u201cfor a long time,\u201d and that Twitter will likely comply too.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook has not provided user data to Turkish authorities in response to government requests relating to the protests<\/i>,\u201d the company said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cWe reject all government data requests from Turkish authorities and push them to formal legal channels unless it appears that there is an immediate threat to life or a child.\u201d
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\nFacebook has expressed concerns over a draft bill on social media which would require companies to share data with Turkish authorities. Executives plan on raising the issue during this week\u2019s meeting with Turkish officials in the US.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, Turkish Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, Binali Yildirim, said the country\u2019s government was satisfied with Facebook\u2019s assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook has been working in coordination with the Turkish authorities for a long time. They have a unit in Turkey. We don\u2019t have any problem with them,<\/i>\u201d Yildirim said. The statement sparked outrage among Turkish social network users.<\/p>\n

Yildirim added that Twitter has not shown such \u201cpositive approach\u201d<\/i>\u00a0despite\u00a0\u201cnecessary warnings\u201d<\/i>\u00a0from Turkey. He said that the Turkish government has asked Twitter, along with other social media sites, to set up a representative office inside the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have told all social media that…if you operate in Turkey you must comply with Turkish law\u2026When information is requested, we want to see someone in Turkey who can provide this…there needs to be an interlocutor we can put our grievance to and who can correct an error if there is one,<\/i>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTwitter will probably comply too. Otherwise, this is a situation that cannot be sustained,\u201d Yildirim stressed. His statement was presumably referring to social media\u2019s role in the country\u2019s recent anti-government protests. He added that the government seeks only to \u201cturn down the volume of the social media,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0rather than restricting it.<\/p>\n

Another ministry official told Reuters that Turkey has asked Twitter to reveal the identities of users who posted messages which were considered insulting to Prime Minister Erdogan or the Turkish government. It was not immediately clear if Twitter responded.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Erdogan called social networking sites a \u201cnuisance\u201d<\/i>\u00a0during the anti-government protests in June, after local media reported that dozens were arrested for \u201cinciting unrest\u201d via social media.<\/p>\n

The country’s interior minister previously announced that Ankara was working on new regulations that would target so-called “provocateurs”<\/i>\u00a0on social media. A source told Reuters that the justice ministry had proposed that any Turk wishing to open a Twitter account would have to enter his or her national identification number. This was reportedly turned down by the transport ministry for being technically infeasible.<\/p>\n

Turkey has a long record of legislative moves which rights groups believe fall under internet censorship. Ankara banned YouTube for more than two years in 2008 after a video clip \u2018insulted\u2019 the Turkish Republic\u2019s founder, Ataturk.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook alleges that the Turkish government giving protesters’ personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,171,174,194,173,188],"tags":[77166,54212,9348,54211,32692,20643,14137,13828,11221,20648,77182,15400,52822],"class_list":["post-39542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-politics","tag-breaking-news","tag-facebok-shared-personal-informations","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-shared-informations-turkish-government","tag-facebook-turkey","tag-information-technology","tag-internet","tag-law","tag-protest","tag-social-networks","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-protests","tag-twitter-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}