{"id":19675,"date":"2010-06-12T23:24:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=19675"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:44:46","slug":"turkish-president-uses-twitter-to-condemn-youtube-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/12\/turkish-president-uses-twitter-to-condemn-youtube-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish president uses Twitter to condemn YouTube ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abdullah Gul tweets his disapproval and says officials will look at ways of reopening access<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Associated Press in Ankara<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Abdullah-Gul-Twits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Abdullah-Gul-Twits.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Abdullah-Gul-Twits-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/>Turkey&#8217;s president, Abdullah Gul, has used Twitter to condemn the country&#8217;s ban on YouTube and some Google pages. Photograph: Ates Tumer\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish president has used his Twitter account to condemn the country&#8217;s ban on YouTube and some Google services.<\/p>\n<p>In separate tweets, Abdullah Gul said he did not approve of the bans and had instructed officials to examine legal ways of reopening access.<\/p>\n<p>Courts have blocked access to YouTube since 2008 after Greek users posted videos alleging that Ataturk was homosexual.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/turkey\">Turkey<\/span> extended the ban to some Google pages using the same\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/internet\">internet<\/span> protocol addresses as YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>In January the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe urged Turkey to abolish or reform a law allowing it to block around 3,700 Internet sites.<\/p>\n<p>Websites can be blocked under article 5651 of the Turkish penal code for a range of offences including insulting Ataturk, child pornography and encouraging suicide.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/jun\/11\/abdullah-gul-twitter-turkey-youtube-ban\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/jun\/11\/abdullah-gul-twitter-turkey-youtube-ban<\/span>, 11 June 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdullah Gul tweets his disapproval and says officials will look at ways of reopening access Associated Press in Ankara Turkey&#8217;s president, Abdullah Gul, has used Twitter to condemn the country&#8217;s ban on YouTube and some Google pages. Photograph: Ates Tumer\/EPA The Turkish president has used his Twitter account to condemn the country&#8217;s ban on YouTube [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":19676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[3126,2589,3125],"class_list":["post-19675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-google-ban","tag-twitter","tag-youtube-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}