Turkey Bans WordPress

August 24, 2007 by Anil P.
Filed under Culture, Site News, Tech

The popular blogging platform, WordPress (which all of my blogs are based on) has been banned in Turkey. An estimated 1 million blogs have been shut down on a court order last week.

On August 17th, 2007, the Turkish Fatih Second Civil Court of First Instance blocked access to all wordpress.com blogs in response to a suit filed by Adnan Oktar??s lawyers on the grounds that blogs hosted on the platform published allegedly defamatory and ??unlawful?? statements about their client.

Blocking/censoring WordPress because of content on a blog is like outlawing Honda after someone is arrested for drink driving. Almost as ridiculous as when the Turkish government banned YouTube in response to a video they didn’t like.

More information and discussion here. How to hack around the block, here.

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4 Responses to “Turkey Bans WordPress”

Bob R says:
February 1, 2012 at 14:46
I realize this is going back a bit, but I’m assuming the blanket ban on wordpress has been lifted? Thanks!
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- Anil P. says:
  February 1, 2012 at 14:50
  Yes it has
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