A Turkish court ordered Sunday a block on access to a
The Golbasi Duty Magistrate Court gave the order on the
request of Prosecutor Harun Ceylan, who was investigating the pages on social
media.
The court decided that Facebook, the world’s biggest social
network, would be blocked Turkey if Facebook fails to implement the order.
The court’s decision has been forwarded to the Presidency of
Telecommunication and Communication and to the Access Provider Association.
Previously, a court in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir
province ruled on Jan. 14 to block access to web pages showing Charlie Hebdo's
latest cover featuring a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad.
The cover depicts Prophet Muhammad in a white dress and
shedding a tear, holding up a sign reading, “Je suis Charlie” -- slogan
popularized after Paris attacks -- below the headline "All is
forgiven."
On Jan. 7, 12 people were massacred in a gun attack in the
Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo magazine.
“In comparison with Twitter and YouTube, Facebook cooperates
with the Turkish authorities much better,” said Yaman Akdeniz, a cyberlaw
professor at Bilgi University in Istanbul. “Therefore, it’s not surprising that
Facebook removed these pages right away.”
The company’s most recent public report on compliance with
government requests covers the first half of 2014. In that time, Facebook said,
India asked the company to block almost 5,000 pieces of online content, the
most of any country. Turkey was second, with nearly 1,900 pieces of content
blocked at the government’s request, and Pakistan was third, at more than
1,700.
Facebook said that Turkish officials asked for details about
local users of the service 249 times in the first half of 2014, and that the
company complied in about three-fifths of the cases.
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