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Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail
makne writes "H. Ertas, a Turkish editor of the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) has been sentenced to 10 months in prison after being found guilty of editing a category about the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). Ertas's lawyer, Suna Coskun, explained that his client had worked as a voluntary editor at the Open Directory Project during his studies at the Euphrat-University and had been responsible for the Kurdish category. At the same time he became interested in Kurds and undertook his own research into the subject. As a voluntary editor, he had sorted the directory submissions but could not be responsible for their content. Therefore there could be no penalty under international law, according to Coskun. His activities could in no way be understood as 'support for a terrorist organisation' and thus Ertas' release was appropriate. The court sentenced Ertas to 10 months in prison and a fine of 416 million Turkish lire ($293). The sentence is not eligible for probation." (Read on for more.)
By email, makne writes "I don't know the editor personally, but the editor was first arrested two years ago, then released on parole until now. Members of the editor community
have tried to help him in any way they can, with no apparent success. The editor resigned from the ODP in 2002."
Makne also provided this link to a summary (from the Kurdish point of view) of earlier attempts to stifle Kurdish sites, including a campaign to have DMOZ's then-parent company Netscape remove the Kurdish category from DMOZ.
Not to start a flame war, but how many kurds is the turkish government and military / police responsible of killing? To put things "head to head", so to speak.
The true question is why Turkey wants to enter a hypocritical, elitist club of whiny pansies like the EU in the first place. I'd rather eat a bowl of broken glass and laxatives than declare myself a member of the EU.
In the 80s the USA considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist, and the mujaheddin (you know, like Osama bin Laden) freedom fighers in the same vein as the founding fathers of the USA
Now
Sit down and think
it's in my head
Yes. A better example would be when Bushitler threw Michael Moore in a federal 'pound me in the ass' prison (and Mikey has a lot of ass to go around).
How else can you explain Moore's silence in the weeks following the election? I'm 97% sure that his recent TV appearances were all faked in a bunker located in Area 51.
I think that this just shows what is wrong with dmoz. Unlike wikipedia where everything is open and subject to review (by anyone), dmoz is very secretive. Right from listing a site to selecting an editor.
Dmoz has been hijacked by a few SEOs and fanatics, and H. Ertas has got what he deserved.
Also, reading the posts above, I frankly don't see how this affects wikipedia. Try and appreciate the difference, a sentence has been passed against an Editor NOT against dmoz.
Please remember that the IRA that fought in the War of Independence is not the same organisation as the Provisional IRA that has conducted a terrorist campaign in Northern Ireland in recent years. So it's unfair to say that "the British government would have us think that your grandfather was a terrorist".
My grandfather didn't distinguish between the old and provsional IRA - he killed police men, senior public servants - anyone who kept British rule going not just combatants. Oh, and my grandmother and great grandmother helped too. Same enemy, same cause as far as he was concerned, and any old IRA man would agree. Nobody voted for him to kill people, and in actual fact, very few people supported him back then too.
Until Ireland is free of English rule, she will always be perpetually at war with your British Monarchy, Government and People.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
I was wondering how you people can sleep at night, Thanks to you, I have some idea now.
Anyway, it is unlikely that those women and children try to attack a terrorist organization. In other words, if PKK kills some civilian it cannot be because they are trying to prevent a bomb or anything, it is simply because that is what they do.
You're so incredibly pathetic it's quite funny :) Do you realise your comments to me are getting linked to and laughed at? (I'm not the one doing the linking - but I was told about it)
This one is wonderful. You're down to fist fights? Is that because your brother is one of the brave US soldiers pouring napalm over women and children in Falluja?
(PS: Your actual post is filled with factual errors about me. You need to brush up on your research!)
it's in my head