The Wikimedia Foundation writes in its blog that even now, after ten months, the people of Turkey are still denied access to Wikipedia by the current Turkish government.
It has been ten months since the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. For almost a year, the 80 million people of Turkey have been denied access to information on topics ranging from medicine, to history, to current events on Wikipedia. After ten months, and in the midst of the school term, the need to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey becomes more urgent every day.
The blog post is light on information but does go on to mention ongoing efforts to negotiate removing the ban. Though mostly it concentrates on what the foundation sees as the benefits to lifting the ban.
(Score: 1) by conn8d on Monday March 19 2018, @06:57PM (2 children)
Using Tor to access Wikipedia would be dead simple since you can just download the Tor Browser with everything already setup.
Here is an article from last year talking about the Dark Web Version of the Wikipedia. It mentions Turkey.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4g4b/theres-now-a-dark-web-version-of-wikipedia-tor-alec-muffett [vice.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday March 19 2018, @08:35PM (1 child)
Not really. Tor is blocked in Turkey, also. [turkeyblocks.org] You can bridge it, but then you have to know how to do that.
Do you really want to try that in a country where abductions and police torture [hrw.org] have been reported to occur? (I'm not saying that this doesn't happen elsewhere - but it is not impossible that just having encrypted traffic might earn one attention that could be uncomfortable).
This sig for rent.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Tuesday March 20 2018, @02:56AM