On 29 April 2017 at 22:11, Juliet Barbara jbarbara@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thank you, everyone, for your messages regarding the situation in Turkey. As you can imagine, this has been a very busy time for the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal, Communications, Technical Operations, and Community Engagement departments, and we apologize for not being able to respond to Wikimedia-l sooner.
We are planning to publish a statement on the Wikimedia blog soon. In the meantime, we have been handling media and other inquiries with the following short statement, which we shared with the Communications Committee (ComCom) earlier this morning:
"The Wikimedia Foundation has learned that access to Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey as of Saturday, April 29th. Wikipedia is a rich and valuable source of neutral, reliable information in hundreds of languages, written by volunteers around the world. We are committed to ensuring that Wikipedia remains available to the millions of people who rely on it in Turkey. To that end, we are actively working with outside counsel to seek judicial review of the decision affecting access to Wikipedia. We hope the issue can be resolved promptly."
We will continue to do our best to monitor this discussion, but I ask for your patience as we are managing inquiries coming in from multiple places.
If you are receiving media inquiries about this, please contact press@wikimedia.org and we will be able to assist you. At this point, we believe that the most valuable point Wikimedians can make on behalf of Wikipedia is explaining its value as an educational resource.
Thank you!
Juliet
FWIW the two articles the Turkish state is apparently complaining about are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Tu...