{"id":4409,"date":"2008-09-20T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:28:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:28:34","slug":"creationist-adnan-oktar-wins-ban-on-richard-dawkins-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/20\/creationist-adnan-oktar-wins-ban-on-richard-dawkins-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationist Adnan Oktar wins ban on Richard Dawkins site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- END: Source and Global links --><!-- div class=\"grey-line\"><\/div--><!-- END: M76 Global Navigation - Header --><!-- BEGIN: Region for all content --><!-- BEGIN: Module - Main Heading --><\/p>\n<div class=\"float-left position-relative margin-top-minus-22\"><span class=\"small\"> From <\/span><span class=\"byline\">The Times<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"float-right text-right position-relative margin-top-minus-20\"><!-- this will be populated from CMS --><!-- BEGIN: Module - Advert:Top --><!-- For Travel Search --><!--SECTION:parameter parameter=\"dart.server\" \/--><!-- END: Module - Advert:Top --><\/div>\n<div class=\"small color-666\">September 20, 2008<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Muslim creationist has succeeded in having Richard Dawkins\u2019s website banned in Turkey, after complaining that its atheist content was blasphemous.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s internet users are now subject to a court order imposed on Turk Telecom that prohibits them from accessing <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/richarddawkins.net\/\">richarddawkins.net<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The court in Istanbul issued its judgment after <strong>Adnan Oktar claimed that his book <em>Atlas of Creation<\/em>, which contests the arguments for evolution, had been defamed on Dawkins\u2019s website.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In July Professor Dawkins wrote on his site: \u201cI am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breath-taking inanity of the content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Mr Oktar, who uses the pen name Harun Yahya, tried to have Dawkins\u2019s book <em>The God Delusion <\/em>banned in Turkey but failed. He is also appealing against a three-year prison sentence for creating an illegal organisation for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article4791175.ece\">The Times<\/span>,  September 20, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Times September 20, 2008 Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent A Muslim creationist has succeeded in having Richard Dawkins\u2019s website banned in Turkey, after complaining that its atheist content was blasphemous. The country\u2019s internet users are now subject to a court order imposed on Turk Telecom that prohibits them from accessing richarddawkins.net. The court in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":108034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,94],"tags":[635,639,641],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","category-uk","tag-creationism","tag-richard-dawkins","tag-the-god-delusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","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=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}