Turkey Lifts Ban on YouTube

After a two year ban Turkey has finally allowed its users to access YouTube again. The ban was put into place after offensive videos had been posted. Greek users had posted videos calling Ataturk and Turks "homosexuals." In Turkey insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk or "Turkishness" is illegal. In 2007 Turkey's parliament put a law into place that allowed the court to ban any website suspected of a crime. In June the law had been used to ban more than 5,000 websites making Turkey's internet censorship one of the heaviest in the world.

submitted by Haley Kirk