Turkey’s telecommunications regulator, the TİB, blocked domestic access on Saturday to pro-Kurdish and leftist websites based in Turkey and northern Iraq, according to news reports.
Source/Credit: CPJ / Hurriyet Daily News
By CPJ / HDN| July 28, 2015
... CPJ - July 28, 2015
Turkish authorities blocked access to at least eight news websites in Turkey on Saturday amid what the government called a counter-terrorism operation, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Turkish authorities to restore access to the websites so that Turkish citizens can access news of public interest.
The move comes amid increased violence in Turkey as the country late last week joined the fight against the militant group Islamic State in Syria and northern Iraq, although some critics say that the government is using the opportunity to fight the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), both of which have been classified as terrorist organizations, news reports said. The Turkish government and the PKK, which operates out of northern Iraq, have had a truce in place since 2013, the reports said.
Turkey’s telecommunications regulator, the TİB, blocked domestic access on Saturday to pro-Kurdish and leftist websites based in Turkey and northern Iraq, according to news reports. The blocked websites include Rudaw, the digital portal of the Kurdish media network; the Erbil-based news agency BasNews; the pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA); the Hawar News Agency (ANHA); the daily Özgür Gündem; the information portal Yüksekova Haber; the left-wing Sendika; and the Kurdish news agency RojNews, according to news reports.
... HDN - July 27, 2015
Many internet users have been rushing to download VPNs to circumvent the government’s web restrictions.
On the other hand, Turkish officials speaking to daily Hürriyet denied that Twitter and Facebook were also blocked by authorities late July 24. The reason for the reduced service for both platforms in Turkey remained unclear on July 25.
Mehmet Ali Köksal, an attorney specializing in IT law, told Hürriyet that Turkish authorities could be controlling Twitter and Facebook traffic to spy on PKK communications, leading to the slowing down in both services.
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On July 22, a Turkish court blocked Twitter for more than two hours after ordering a publication ban on photos and videos of the deadly Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) bombing in southeastern Turkey that killed 31 members of a socialist youth group that were bringing to toys to children in Kobane.
Currently, more than 81,000 websites are blocked in Turkey, according to monitoring website Engelli Web.
-- Turkish authorities block access to news websites, Twitter and Facebook slows down
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