Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google

oxide7 and a number of other readers sent word (from mostly non-authoritative sources as yet) that Turkey had imposed an indefinite ban on some Google properties. "Turkey's Telecommunications Presidency said it has banned access to many of Google IP addresses without assigning clear reasons. The statement did not confirm if the ban is temporary or permanent. Google's translation and document sharing sites have also been banned indefinitely along with YouTube and Facebook in the country. Other services such as AppEngine, FeedBurner, Analytics, etc., have also been reportedly banned." Some real-time commentary (much of it in Turkish) can be found at Twitter hashtag #TurkeyCensoringGoogle. We have noted in past years the censorious ways of Turkish courts.

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Re:What does this hope to accomplish?

[CAIMLAS]

Well, that's kinda what they want to do, from the looks of it (and judging by their social/political behavior over the past several years). "Hey fellow Mohammedans, we're with you now!" First it was denying US air basing into Iraq; most recently it was the vocal support of the flotilla into Israel (of which many of their citizens were participants).

It probably has something to do with a "religiously conservative" party having taken the seats of power there in 2002. Just maybe.