6 Comments

Turkey Quits YouTube, errrrrr, Cold Turkey

March 8, 2007 by in News with 6 Comments

First Brazil, Now Turkey! Banned at the DNS level YouTube is shut out of Turkish ISP Türk Telekom, despite YouTube complying to Turkish demands to remove some questionable media. The ban was placed after the government were getting complaints that the Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was being insulted on the site.

In Turkey there seems to be a propaganda war, and the government is acting swiftly to knock down any dissident media. However, if any Turkish citizen is using another connection to the INternet besides Türk Telekom YouTube is still accessible.

Read More


  • Andre

    Youtube was banned in Brazil for only a few days, I didn’t even notice at the time it happened. The reason was because there were videos of a brazilian model having sex on the beach with her “boyfriend”. She sued everyone she could in an effort to stop the video from being broadcasted everywhere. So they banned youtube… but not for long. And when it came back, guess what… hundreds of users posted her video again and again and again lol… so it’s quite useless trying to stop people from seeing it after tons of other people have a copy of it… and now everything is back to normal. You still can find her vid there with some search :D

  • Ravi

    so wat else are they going 2 block? Angry Alien, Blennus, Blip.tv, Break.com, Dailymotion, Double Agent, eVideoShare, Free Video Blog, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Keiichi Anime Forever, Metacafe, MySpace, MySpace Video Code, Putfile, Totally Crap, vidiLife, vSocial, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Badjojo, Blastro, Bofunk, Bolt, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, EVTV1, FindVideos, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, Vimeo, Yikers and ZippyVideos.

    Source: http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

  • Paul

    Easy just use another open DNS server instead!! :)

  • xSmurf

    I really wonder how they hope to join EU with this kind of attitude!

  • Victor

    The truth is they dont want to join EU lol %70 of the Turkish Nation thinks its better to establish a union with old Turkish socialist countries which are rich in oil and goods rather than expanding EU

  • aysh

    Turkey are too good for the EU why dont you see it that way and the turks dont want to be part of the EU they are happy as they are….

Privacy Policy | About Us | Contact Us | Write for us