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Turkey Bans Social Media Over Hostage Photos
It looks as though Turkish authorities are once again set to show Twitter "the power of the Republic of Turkey," as reports indicate access to social media in the country has been blocked. The move looks to be related to the widespread dissemination of pictures showing prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz after he was taken hostage in Istanbul by DHKP-C last week. Here's more:
Via Hurriyet:
Turkish authorities have blocked access to Twitter, Youtube and Facebook over the publication of photos published on the three social media platforms, showing a prosecutor who was taken hostage by militants in Istanbul last week.
A number of Turkey's leading Internet service providers practiced the ban in the afternoon April 6, an official confirmed after widespread reports of problems to have access to the social media websites.
Speaking to daily Hürriyet, Internet Service Providers Union (ESB) Secretary General Bülent Kent stressed that "the procedure continues" as all service providers are expected to practice the ban soon.
Two militants with alleged links to the outlawed far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) took Mehmet Selim Kiraz, the prosecutor in the controversial case of the killing of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan, hostage in Istanbul's Ça?layan Courthouse on March 31.
Kiraz succumbed to his injuries in hospital after the six-hour hostage drama, during which security forces killed the two captors.
On April 1, a total of 13 media organizations and journalists had their access banned for the press conference and the funeral ceremony of Kiraz at the Eyüp Sultan Mosque on April 1 for publishing photos showing Kiraz as a hostage.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu later announced that he gave the instruction to withhold accreditation.
Separately, an criminal investigation into seven Turkish newspapers for publishing the hostage photo was launched on April 2.
As we noted more than a year ago: "...with the government in full out despotic mode, however one which would work in the 1970s but certainly not in an age of instant information exchange, further escalations of locking out internet provides will certainly accelerate until finally the information and entertainment starved country says enough." And with gross incompetence apparently to blame for the massive blackout that left half of the country without power last week, one has to lament the plight of Turkey's populace who, thanks to their government, are sometimes left in the dark, both figuratively and literally.
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coming soon to a banana replublic near you
That would be good, but they don't even have the climate to grow bannnas
Or water!
You can't put the genie back into the bottle even if warped minds believe they can.
You can put the genie back in the bottle but he's gonna be really pissed...
Do you know how many morons think WE have "freedom of speech".
WE can't speak freely, the "news" media doesn't speak honestly.
Right.
Virtually ALL of the rights and freedoms "guaranteed" to us by the Bill of Rights are now denied us or at least, greatly reduced while government has expanded its own powers well beyond "restrictions" meant to be imposed on it by the Constitution.
You can actually grow bananas in the most unlikely places.
http://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2013/12/02/the-mythical-banana-kingdom-...
Not enough output to be worthy of a banana republic.
Turkey grows good tobacco. A low nitorogen soil and perfect climate- warm but not too humid- makes turkish tobacco mild and flavorful, yet low in nicotine.
American tobacco is considered the gold standard of tobaccos, and is almost exclusively exported to Europe. American cigarettes, especially the bargain brands, are made almost exclusively from cheap imported tobacco from china and brazil. This low-grade tobacco is polluted with all sorts of US banned pesticides and artificial nitrate fertilizers, not to mention heavy metals and other industrial pollutants.
Tobacco companies grind this nasty source material into a fine powder, and then glue it back together with polymer glues derived from pertochemicals. This tobacco sheet product is then sprayed with nicotine and flavorings, and cut up into fine strips, then put into cigarette form.
Smoke this shit and get cancer. Guaranteed.
Better to smoke organic tobacco and/or grow your own. Tobacco smoke inhaled in moderation never killed anyone until after WW2 and the introduction of nitrate fertilizers and petro-chemical organo-phosphate pesticides.
Nicotine makes your synapses fire with much greater efficiency. What the chemical does is help to bridge the gaps betwwen neurons, so that the signals flow with much greater ease. This is why tobacco is the favored drug for military personnel. The nicotine calms the emotional centers, and simultaneously sharpens sensory perceptions, allowing for smooth, accurate, and decisive decision-making, and consequent action.
Conversely, THC, the active ingrediant in marijuanna, activates latent neuro-receptors that went dormant after birth. These receptors are only naturaly active while in the womb.
What do you want to do, crawl back into Mama, or get some shit accomplished?
Even in the 30's the small Camel cigarettes were known as 'coffin pegs'. So tell me more about smoking.
Already had. USA threatened these people with arrest:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Photographers+Say+BP+Restricts+Access+to...
Sorry to repeat it, I cant bear to watch this slip into the memory hole.
Try this one, and be sure to read the comments:
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/limits_on_acce...
You actually have it completely wrong. Twitter, Faceplant, Google and Crapple, are operating subsidiaries of the US Government.
So Trav moved to Turkey?
Looks like we're gonna have to go in a bust him out of there...
And when we do......he's gonna get a stern talking to.
Who did Dear Leader call first?
The "1st tee starter" at Burning Tree CC
Who did Dear Leader call first?
Where was the headquarters of the Caliphate?
dear god not facebook! /s
if it's important we know about it in the usa- our media and internet are the best..911, jfk bay of tonkin,employment,aca for ins co's profits,never mind.
Only one way to fix this, remove the so called authorities and hang the pricks.
Dont forget that in the USA, that people were threatened with arrest if they took pictures of the tar and oil on the beaches after the BP oil spill.
Anyone remember that?
Even better, I think many of those stories have been sent into the memory hole.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Photographers+Say+BP+Restricts+Access+to...
not to mention the term "filter bubble" as a limiting thing here,
"customized filter bubbles" and "attention span" in an ad-world paradise ad-ded.
only aking to clear: for a set of photos the complete services are banned?
medieval politicians meet new times
and they suceed ....
I voluntarily banned Facebook because Facebook sucks.
You got that right. No more fecebook.
In general, if your accessing the the web without PEERBLOCK v1.2 (peerblock.com) running and/or a VPN connection, then your a cyber tool.
Because here in the USSA we have such great cyber freedoms and privacy, right?
http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447#.VSCcGPu...
The social media is a serious threat to the bedtime stories of the state. They hate it.
Although Turkish authorities have can easily be criticized for great many things, like those mentioned in the article above, they do actually deserve respect also for doing more for Syria than any one else.
http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48e0fa7f.html
The west needs to do more to help, what we are doing now is nowhere nearly enough.
Never had a Twatter or Facefuck account. Will enjoy the ensued chaos of social media junkies, when platform goes into temporary Government controlled darkness.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGdWsxHJlM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDIG...
Erdogon is under pressure from the USA - the Media manipulation and American NGO's are all CIA directed. The Pipeline deal with Russia and wavering on NATO are the epicenter of his problem.
One more country they want to move to chaos - cant blame the man for trying to keep order in his own way
TURKISH PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES TWITTER BAN VIA TWITTER, AND CAN´T UNDERSTAND WHY NO ONE GOT THE MESSAGE
Health Ministry urged to lower the minimum IQ requirement for the presidency, but Health Minister can´t read.
Turks indiferent to all these events, cheer in the streets in anticipation for Ramadan.
Source: www.financialpaparazzi.com
Just give it alittle while boys and girls, we’ll be absolutely swimming in all censorship you are willing to eat and swallow right here in the good ole’ USS of CeyeA.
~ DC
This message has been NOT approved by the United States Board of Political Correctness
So I just got done chatting with one of my mates in Istanbul - to quote him he sez "yeah, the amateurs here still haven't mastered the art of total information control like the Chinese - i can still get on using mirror sites"
why does your mate in istanbul use those police tools? is he a full moron?
Think 2014 meeting 'Bilderberg', where five guest were from Turkey. (esp. msms)
Double thunking Washington's deliberate use of the 'Radical Muslim Gulen`Movement' based in USSA.
Thrice think the most powerful men deciding Turkey's future? One in prison (a Kurd), one a Ataturk protege, and one an extremist... against anything other than Sunni`Islam that is a separatist extremist. (just what the USSA wants?)
ref: http://www.infowars.com/official-bilderberg-2014-membership-list-released/
http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-urges-washington-extradite-erdogans-foe-161550571.html
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/the-gulen-movement-indoctrinating-for-jihad-in-charter-schools/
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/erdogan-ocalan-gulen-turkey-pkk-peace-process-presidency.html
Ps. If one reads the links[?], it should be crystal clear why Erdogan must do what he's doing-- but, only in a temporarily fashion to rid the Gulen forces stirring up civil-war.
jmo
only a moron will use the named FBI-CIA-NSA tools.
Only a moron.