{"id":35598,"date":"2011-06-15T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=35598"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:45:40","slug":"turkey-arrests-32-suspected-hackers-after-protests-against-government-internet-filters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/06\/15\/turkey-arrests-32-suspected-hackers-after-protests-against-government-internet-filters\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Arrests 32 Suspected Hackers After Protests Against Government Internet Filters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Sarah Kessler<\/p>\n<p>Turkish police have arrested 32 people that they believe played a role in taking down government websites on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35600\" title=\"hackers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hackers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hackers.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hackers-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>A loosely affiliated group of hackers known as Anonymous attacked the websites in response to Internet filters that Turkey plans to implement in August, The Wall Street Journal reports. Government officials say the mandatory filters are intended to protect web users, but many consider the filters to be a censorship effort.<\/p>\n<p>Websites claiming to represent Anonymous, which is known for launching coordinated cyberattacks on corporate and government websites, announced plans to \u201cfight\u201d the Turkish government in response to the filters.<\/p>\n<p>The 32 arrests were made on Sunday, the day of Turkey\u2019s national elections, in 12 different cities. Eight of the people arrested were minors and one was a lawyer, according to Turkish news outlet Anadolu Ajansi.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey isn\u2019t the only country cracking down on hackers.<\/p>\n<p>On June 10, police in Spain arrested three people described as members of Anonymous after they found evidence suggesting that the suspects were involved in attacks on numerous government websites, as well as the cyberattack that shut down Sony\u2019s PlayStation Network for more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sarah Kessler Turkish police have arrested 32 people that they believe played a role in taking down government websites on Thursday. A loosely affiliated group of hackers known as Anonymous attacked the websites in response to Internet filters that Turkey plans to implement in August, The Wall Street Journal reports. Government officials say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":35600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[5851,9026,5542,5377,1575],"class_list":["post-35598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-anonymous","tag-free-internet","tag-internet-filtering-rules","tag-new-internet-controls","tag-turkish-hackers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598","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=35598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}