President Gül post twitters against ban on YouTube
President Gül post twitters against ban on YouTube
Turkey's president Abdullah Gül has used his Twitter account on Thursday to slam the country's ban on YouTube and some Google services.
Obviously a keen user the president also in separate tweets sent out on Thursday, said he did not approve of the bans and had instructed officials to look into legal ways to reopen access.
Courts have blocked access to YouTube since 2008 over videos deemed to be insulting to Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Last week, Turkey extended the ban to some Google pages that use the same Internet Protocol addresses as YouTube.
In January, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe urged Turkey to abolish or reform a law allowing it to block around 3,700 Internet sites.
Obviously a keen user the president also in separate tweets sent out on Thursday, said he did not approve of the bans and had instructed officials to look into legal ways to reopen access.
Courts have blocked access to YouTube since 2008 over videos deemed to be insulting to Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Last week, Turkey extended the ban to some Google pages that use the same Internet Protocol addresses as YouTube.
In January, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe urged Turkey to abolish or reform a law allowing it to block around 3,700 Internet sites.
