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. 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. My proposed line of action would be: 1. Try to ascertain that there are indeed problems, we could for example ask the people from the Turkish Wikipedia to try and have a look. 2. If so, send a message to Turkish authorities, threatening with informing European press (of course smoothed down, something like "Before sending this information to the press, we would like to have your reaction to ascertain that this is not a temporary technical problem")
Andre Engels
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:00:26 +0100, Erdal Ronahi erdal.ronahi@gmx.net wrote:
I get reports from Turkey that Internet Cafes have begun to block several Kurdish sites including the Kurdish Wikipedia, which I am admin on. While it is known that political sites hosted in Europe are being censored in the whole of Turkey, the selective blocking of sites like Wikipedia using special software seems to be something new.
After the sentencing of a dmoz editor to 10 months in prison two weeks ago this looks like another escalation.
Before all, I want to be sure that there is a significant fall in the access rate from Turkey. Unfortunately the Webalizer statistics do not work at the moment. Can anybody with a better insight verify if there is a notable fall in accesses from Turkey to the Kurdish Wikipedia?