[utku_karatas]

You're right about Turkey, it's no free trade issue here.

The bans are about our archaic laws allowing anyone to claim any site for being a threat to our national unity. And these lawsuits usually end up with banning the whole thing. At some point even Blogger.com was gone (probably because some smart-ass didn't like one post and issued a suit).

And as for the inaccuracy of the write up, Youtube's status is quite flaky because of all the lawsuits against it - one after another. Even we lost the track of what's going on there - let alone the poor guy :)

[eru]

> You're right about Turkey, it's no free trade issue here.

Yes. The last time I noticed, it was about the sexual orientation of the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Attatürk. Is that still current?

[utku_karatas]

AFAICR, yes, that was the first tide of the neverending banning wave - an insulting song about Ataturk whose legacy is protected strictly by the current law. I've no clue what the latest reason is though.