Hi,
This would be good to look into. As others in this thread indicated, this is about the LEAST opportune moment for the Turkish government to do this.
Although I have no sympathy for the present Turkish government, I must state that I am NOT talking about a block on a countrywide level. There are people I personally know that are contributing from inside Turkey. But one contributer stated that he used to work from internet cafes and that it is usual that Kurdish sites are being censored there. Just that some of the cafes seem to have added Wikipedia to the blacklist is new.
Turkey is not as 100% government controlled as China or Iran may be, it may well be a censorship in the initiative of local autorities or individual internet cafe owners.
With the discussion of EU-membership coming up, any negative news about the Turkish human rights situations would be most unwelcome to the Turkish authorities.
That is true, but last week a 12-year old boy was killed with 13 bullets from the gun of a military, so internet censorship is not one of the major problems today. The disappointing fact is that Europe does more think of itself (muslims, migration etc.) than of the human rights situation in Turkey.
My proposed line of action would be:
- Try to ascertain that there are indeed problems
That's what I originally intended with my posting. I used to read the Webalizer statistics, but they have been unavailable for quite a while now.
example ask the people from the Turkish Wikipedia to try and have a look.
Most of them contribute form the USA, but it's worth a try.
Greetings, Erdal