Tweet
Guardian Liberty Voice
March 9 2014
Turkey Planning YouTube and Facebook Ban
Added by Vikas Sharma on March 9, 2014.
Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan fired a warning shot at social
media sites YouTube and Facebook. He even added banning these sites
could be next step after phone conversation involving corruption of
the government allies were leaked on YouTube and Facebook. "We will
take the strongest possible way, We will not leave this nation at the
mercy of YouTube and Facebook," he said in an ATV interview. Also
adding that this is the work of the opposition parties to disrepute
his government before the March 30 local elections. Though multiple
corruption charges were filed last year against the current
government. Meanwhile, the Turkish President Abdullah Gul strongly
rejected the ban proposal saying: "Closure of [social media] is out of
question." Appallingly, the Turkey Government on Feb 22, 2014 had
already imposed new internet policing laws. These trends from the
Erdogan government is disappointing after it showed promise of
democratic governance at the start.
When Turkey is talked about in global community, the first thing
people credit that country is its global positioning. Turkey is the
bridge between the east and the west but, the great Christopher
Hitchens once narrated a conversation that happened with his friend on
the Turkey bridge question. Apparently, the friend of the Hitch told
him "Turkey is not a bridge my friend, it is a tunnel." Now it looks
like a tunnel indeed, a morose and stinky one at that. Turkey's Human
rights violations go a long way back, their treatment of the Kurds as
second class Turkish citizens is true and Kurds are the largest
ethnicity in the world without the state of their own. Also, the Turks
bullying of the Armenian minority and the Armenian genocide during
First World War by the ottoman Turks is well-known.
Talking of Prime Minister. Erdogan, his arrogance stands out. During
the Syrian crisis, he dismissed any talk of the mass murder by Bashar
Al Assad government and supported Assad saying "No Muslim would kill
his own people." This sort of arrogance is not a new one, in March,
1785 newly born America faced it too. After a prior treaty with the US
for ship trade, the ottomans attacked American ships breaking the
treaty of Tripoli and when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams as American
representatives went to London to meet the Ottoman foreign minister.
When Jefferson asked him why after agreeing to share the sea and
without any US provocation did the Ottomans attack US ships, the
Ottoman minister replied that it is stated in their religion, that all
non Prophet believers were sinners and so they had a special right to
kill and enslave.
In recent times, the turkey government tantrums have been plenty and
the US should take some blame for it. Letting Turkey loose is one of
the many disasters of Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. At
the NATO conferences, during their UN security council voting term and
their push for a European Union membership. If there is still any
suitors for Turkey's claim to permanent United Nations Security
Council seat and an EU passport, good luck. It is absurd to put Turkey
with its alarming record, in the same conversation as India and Brazil
for a UN Security Council seat. Like the great George Orwell put it in
1984 "If there is hope, it lies in the proles." Hope Turkey shall
enjoy YouTube and Facebook as most of the world.
Opinion By Vikas Vemuri
http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/turkey-planning-youtube-and-facebook-ban/
March 9 2014
Turkey Planning YouTube and Facebook Ban
Added by Vikas Sharma on March 9, 2014.
Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan fired a warning shot at social
media sites YouTube and Facebook. He even added banning these sites
could be next step after phone conversation involving corruption of
the government allies were leaked on YouTube and Facebook. "We will
take the strongest possible way, We will not leave this nation at the
mercy of YouTube and Facebook," he said in an ATV interview. Also
adding that this is the work of the opposition parties to disrepute
his government before the March 30 local elections. Though multiple
corruption charges were filed last year against the current
government. Meanwhile, the Turkish President Abdullah Gul strongly
rejected the ban proposal saying: "Closure of [social media] is out of
question." Appallingly, the Turkey Government on Feb 22, 2014 had
already imposed new internet policing laws. These trends from the
Erdogan government is disappointing after it showed promise of
democratic governance at the start.
When Turkey is talked about in global community, the first thing
people credit that country is its global positioning. Turkey is the
bridge between the east and the west but, the great Christopher
Hitchens once narrated a conversation that happened with his friend on
the Turkey bridge question. Apparently, the friend of the Hitch told
him "Turkey is not a bridge my friend, it is a tunnel." Now it looks
like a tunnel indeed, a morose and stinky one at that. Turkey's Human
rights violations go a long way back, their treatment of the Kurds as
second class Turkish citizens is true and Kurds are the largest
ethnicity in the world without the state of their own. Also, the Turks
bullying of the Armenian minority and the Armenian genocide during
First World War by the ottoman Turks is well-known.
Talking of Prime Minister. Erdogan, his arrogance stands out. During
the Syrian crisis, he dismissed any talk of the mass murder by Bashar
Al Assad government and supported Assad saying "No Muslim would kill
his own people." This sort of arrogance is not a new one, in March,
1785 newly born America faced it too. After a prior treaty with the US
for ship trade, the ottomans attacked American ships breaking the
treaty of Tripoli and when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams as American
representatives went to London to meet the Ottoman foreign minister.
When Jefferson asked him why after agreeing to share the sea and
without any US provocation did the Ottomans attack US ships, the
Ottoman minister replied that it is stated in their religion, that all
non Prophet believers were sinners and so they had a special right to
kill and enslave.
In recent times, the turkey government tantrums have been plenty and
the US should take some blame for it. Letting Turkey loose is one of
the many disasters of Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. At
the NATO conferences, during their UN security council voting term and
their push for a European Union membership. If there is still any
suitors for Turkey's claim to permanent United Nations Security
Council seat and an EU passport, good luck. It is absurd to put Turkey
with its alarming record, in the same conversation as India and Brazil
for a UN Security Council seat. Like the great George Orwell put it in
1984 "If there is hope, it lies in the proles." Hope Turkey shall
enjoy YouTube and Facebook as most of the world.
Opinion By Vikas Vemuri
http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/turkey-planning-youtube-and-facebook-ban/