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Title    After Nearly Three Years, Wikipedia is Coming Back Online in Turkey
Date    Saturday January 18 2020, @03:43AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_of_Wikipedia_in_Turkey dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/01/17/1454257

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

After nearly three years, Wikipedia is coming back online in Turkey:

After more than two and a half years, Wikipedia appears to be coming back online in Turkey. The popular online encyclopedia was banned in April 2017 after the Turkish government accused the site of running a "smear campaign" against it.

Late last year, the Constitutional Court of Turkey, the country's highest court, ruled that the order was unconstitutional, paving the way for this week's reappearance, which happened to coincide with Wikipedia's 19th birthday.

Turkey had previously banned YouTube and Twitter, and both of those bans were similarly lifted by the Constitutional Court. In 2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also threatened to ban the iPhone and other electronics that come from US companies.

Original Submission

Links
  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "After nearly three years, Wikipedia is coming back online in Turkey" - https://www.cnet.com/news/after-two-and-a-half-years-wikipedia-is-back-online-in-turkey/
  3. "Wikipedia appears to be coming back online" - https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored-in-turkey-after-more-than-two-and-a-half-years/
  4. "banned in April 2017" - https://www.cnet.com/news/turkey-cuts-off-wikipedia-amid-dissent-crackdown/
  5. "accused the site of running a "smear campaign"" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-internet-wikipedia-idUSKBN17V06Q?il=0
  6. "YouTube" - https://www.cnet.com/news/turkeys-top-court-axes-youtube-ban-over-free-speech-concerns/
  7. "Twitter" - https://www.cnet.com/news/court-deems-turkeys-twitter-ban-unconstitutional/
  8. "ban the iPhone and other electronics" - https://www.cnet.com/news/turkeys-president-threatens-boycott-of-iphones-other-us-electronics/
  9. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=38634
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