(1) An amendment to article 8 of Law No. 5651 (see below) was made through the Electronic Communication Law as follows: “ADDITIONAL ARTICLE 1- (7) The following paragraph “The Presidency of Telecommunications and Communication may object to the judicial decisions which are sent thereto for the execution of procedures, as per provisions of Code of Criminal Procedure no. 5271 dated 4/12/2004” has been annexed to Article 8 of Law no. 5651 as paragraph thirteen and to the mentioned Law. (2) Article 12 (5) of the Electronic Communication Law regulates rights and obligations of the operators by stating "the operators are obliged to build the technical infrastructure to provide electronic communications services by meeting the relevant obligations related to national security and the regulations of Laws No. 5397, No. 5651 and...
The Court lifted its blocking order (ban to the two domains and their IP addresses) with regards to Blogger.com and Blogspot. Digiturk, a subscription based digital TV platform in Turkey which owns the right to transmit the live coverage of the Turkish football league games. Access blocking is allowed under supplemental article 4 of the Law No. 5846 on Intellectual & Artistic Works.
Research/Policy paper about content regulation and censorship in Turkey. The paper analyses different legislation, blocking orders issued agains service providers presents recommendations.
Ordering an IP address based access ban to YouTube.com as the website contained two further videos containing defamatory statements about Ataturk contrary to article 8(1)(b) of the Law No. 5651 and Law on crimes committed against Ataturk (Law No. 5816, dated 25/7/1951), and content contrary to article 301 (Insulting Turkishness, the Republic, the organs and institutions of the State) of the Turkish Criminal Code.
Issuing an URL access ban with regards to a single video containing defamatory statements about the dean of University of Marmara in Istanbul in breach of articles 24 and 25 of the Turkish Civil Code in January 2008.