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Turkey revokes YouTube ban

March 10, 2007 — 5.50pm , register orsubscribe to save articles for later.

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Advertisement Internet users in Turkey regained access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube on Friday when a court revoked a ban imposed because a clip was judged to have insulted the country's founder. "Once we received the court decision revoking the ban, we allowed access to YouTube," Ahter Kutadgu, corporate affairs director of Turkey's main Internet provider, Turk Telekom, was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency. The company had blocked access to YouTube on Wednesday on a court order following press reports over a video, submitted by a Greek user, that allegedly insulted the country's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Ataturk, who proclaimed modern day Turkey in 1923, is seen as a national hero by secular Turks and his legacy is protected under a special law. Later that day, the same court ruled, after a petition from Turk Telekom, that it would cancel the ban if the offending video was removed from the website. Advertisement The ban was strongly criticized as censorship in the press and by the general public. The Turkish press reported that YouTube, which was bought by Google in November in a 1.65-billion-dollar stock deal, had removed the video after being bombarded by thousands of e-mails from protesting Turks. The offending video was part of a cyber battle between Turks and Greeks on the website since the beginning of the year, with both parties submitting videos or comments allegedly mocking or insulting the other, according to press reports. , register orsubscribe to save articles for later.

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