Turkey is restoring access to YouTube
Turkey is restoring access to YouTube after the video-sharing website removed the videos that prompted the officials to block access in the first place. The website said that it has removed the videos a prosecutor deemed insulting to Turkey’s founding father, who established the country after collapse of the Ottoman Empire Turkey has blocked access to the website in the past, due to clips allegedly insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who died 70 years ago.
They allowed access again after the disputed videos were removed. Turkey has dropped a ban against YouTube after the popular video site Thursday removed videos the country felt disrespected its founder, Mustafa Kemel Ataturk.
On Thursday, YouTube withdrew the videos, claiming the clips violated its rules for content. The action came after a Turkish court approved a government request to ban the site. In Turkey, it is illegal to insult the founder. Ataturk died 70 years ago.
This isn’t the first time Turkey has blocked, then restored YouTube over offending videos. Recently a global Internet outage ocurred when a government-ordered ban was incorrectly put in place. China has also targeted YouTube after activists used the site to spread videos of the Tibet uprising
