The internet censorship ruled by Turkey's Internet regulator, the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) begins tomorrow under the name of “secure internet”. While the new implementation is expected to raise the number of banned websites in large measure, Alternative Informatics Association has filed an annulment action against BTK’s central filtration implementation.

The number of banned websites in Turkey, which is over six thousand at the moment, is expected to reach hundred thousands since the Information Technologies and Communication Authority will have the authority to ban the websites it deems suitable as of November 22.

Following the revision of BTK’s first decision on the subject which was published on 22 February and retracted in August 2011 as a result of intense criticism and complaints, the decision was re-published on 16 September by BTK which defended that the implementation was developed to protect children and young people from the information pollution and harmful contents on internet.

Alternative Informatics Association remarked that BTK’s arrangement wasn’t based on voluntarism as the Authority claimed, noting that the censorship would be implemented “in a central way in accordance with the state’s instructions”.

Turkish Internet users will need to sign up for one of four filters the BTK will create: children, family, domestic and standard and after the sign up, users will not have the chance to change their filters afterwards.