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[boomerang]

Koşaner, Keçiören and the You Tube ban
Saturday, August 30, 2008

After naked photographs of the founder of Turkey, Atatürk, were broadcast on “youtube”, access to the site was banned by Turkish officials.

This nonsense youtube ban made us prime time news of international television channels and now millions watch these naked pictures.

Turkish officials bringing the ban on you tube are having a hard time catching up with the century.

On the other hand newly appointed Land Force Commander, Gen. Işık Koşaner, in an address sends signals of another set of wrongs.

He says it is the Turkish Armed Forces', or TSK, duty to protect the “nation state, unitary state and laic state”.

He is mistaken because the four pillars of the Republic are democracy, laicism, the legal state and social state.The 2nd Article in the Constitution cites that no power, including TSK, cannot weigh one of these four pillars and classify them under the secondary elements of the republic.

If the “nation-unitary-laic” state is not based on democracy and state of law, there comes dictatorship.

A completly opposite view to Koşaner came from Keçiören Mayor Turgut Altınok. The owner of a grocery store was beaten for selling alcohol and the scenes were broadcast very clearly on the Internet.

Altınok defends that this is a set up and alcoholic beverages cannot be sold in grocery stores, although he condemns the beating.

What an unfortunate statement to hear from an official electedTurkey will someday overcome this youtube ban, the TSK top officials will brief only about military issues, young girls wearing headscarf will attend universities freely and in the facilities run by Istanbul Municipality alcohol will be sold.

We don't want too much, do we?

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=114069

[paliometoxo]

HAHA GOOD RIDANCE TO THE TURKS FROM YOUTUBE ;P

which also effects north cy because their domain is turkey ? .tr

[Oracle]

The Turks all round the World will still carry on posting their disgusting youtubes to spread their pro-Turkish propaganda .......... But it's just that no one in Turkey will hear anything other than what the Government tells them.

Yes Palio .... by accident I think "slow" tess revealed the other day, that is the case, that they have bans in the "trnc" ....

[BC Numismatics]

The Turks can get around the ban by watching http://www.youtube.com through a proxy server.

Aidan.

[paliometoxo]

thats true if they want to badly enough they will , stopping youtube because they did not like a few videos... my god whats wrong with the turkish? living in the past.

ah thnx oracle i dident see her post about that, but seeing as north cy live on turkey phone lines to from turkey, unless close to south i think so easy numbers work if i am nto mistaken btu the further north u go they wont work just turkey numbers,, is there anything north cy does not rely on turkey 100% for?:o

[Oracle]

thats true if they want to badly enough they will , stopping youtube because they did not like a few videos... my god whats wrong with the turkish? living in the past.

ah thnx oracle i dident see her post about that, but seeing as north cy live on turkey phone lines to from turkey, unless close to south i think so easy numbers work if i am nto mistaken btu the further north u go they wont work just turkey numbers,, is there anything north cy does not rely on turkey 100% for?:o

Zan had posted a link to a youtube (which he was accessing from the UK) and when tess tried to get it from the "trnc" (I guess) she got the banned message and obviously wasn't aware of the general Turkish ban.

A heated discussion followed as I didn't realise the extend by which the others would rather not have it exposed ....

This is where it started:

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... c&start=20

[Magnus]

I think we are missing the point here: What kind of weirdo wants to look at naked pictures of Ataturk anyway?

[Cem]

The Youtube was accessible from the north a few days ago.

Today, however I can not access it, but only come up with an empty webpage.

Indeed, that is very foolish and a simple-minded measure on behalf of turkish government as tons of insulting videos and comments flowing between greeks and turks has now become a commonplace and the government still hasn't got used to it yet.

[paliometoxo]

I think we are missing the point here: What kind of weirdo wants to look at naked pictures of Ataturk anyway?

good point.. was this a turk fan wanting to show his/her love for gayturk man or was this an outsider making fun of the turks?

loads of turkish goverments looking at the videos between turk and cypriot? i wonder what they make of all the comments if they read any

[boomerang]

I think we are missing the point here: What kind of weirdo wants to look at naked pictures of Ataturk anyway?

good point.. was this a turk fan wanting to show his/her love for gayturk man or was this an outsider making fun of the turks?

loads of turkish goverments looking at the videos between turk and cypriot? i wonder what they make of all the comments if they read any

oh here is an idea...If you wanna be nasty, keep on harping about ataboy and this forum will be banned form "turkey=fascist state"...

wicked or what?