youtube blocked in Turkey

[dragon]

According to the update it's blocked on all ISP

Turkish government carries on with its crackdown on the internet and added YouTube to its notoriously long list of banned web sites. YouTube blockage came hours after a key security meeting was held in foreign ministry’s office to discuss the leakage to the internet of some voice recordings where some high-level officials are allegedly heard talking about Syria issue.

There is still no official announcement by TİB, the government authority in charge of internet regulation and the organ who implements blocking decisions. However, YouTube’s URL and title appeared on BTK’s (higher organ that includes TİB) web page where the blocked URLs are listed.

The site is still accessible through some ISPs, but the blocking is expected to be implemented fully in an hour’s time by all ISPs.

The government banned Twitter last week on the grounds that the company fails to remove ‘illegal’ content according to Turkish authorities. Yesterday, an administrative court ruled for the suspension of the execution of Twitter blocking.

Last week, Google Inc. has announced that it declined the requests coming from the Turkish government in recent weeks to remove YouTube videos revealing extensive corruption involving PM, his family, ministers, businessmen and several government officials, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The videos included wiretapped sound recordings where, for example, the PM tells his son at home to hide large sums of money from the investigators. It is alleged to be around a couple of million dollars.

UPDATE: As of this moment (3:04PM-GMT) access to YouTube via all ISPs in Turkey is blocked. Below is the screenshot of TİB’s page where the blocking decision is published. What we understand from the text is that the blocking decision is taken by TİB as a ‘precautionary measure’, that is, without a court order:

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[KlavoHunter]

Erdogan is a terrified, weak bully. He's no Ataturk.

[Lictuel]

German news reports that the newest recording that was posted on youtube was about a plan to conduct a false flag operation in syria, to give turkey an excuse for military action within syria.

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[K. A. Pital]

Turkey is a democratic member of the NATO. Twitter, Youtube and those pesky secularists and, of course, all Kurds can go to hell. Erdogan will restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire. Yadda yadda yadda.

[madd0ct0r]

I share an office with three people. When I asked them where they were from, they said 'Kurdistan'