Censorship on 4 News Sites

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Ankara 6th Criminal Judgeship of Peace has blocked access to Mezopotamya Ajans, Demokrat Haber, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi and 1HaberVar news sites. The access block decision was rendered yesterday (January 2).

With this decision, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi has been blocked for 44th time.

Information Technologies and Communication Institute (BTK) laid stress on the importance of “warn-remove” system in its meeting held with content providers on August 26, 2017 and asked the content providers to keep contact info and copyright page of their websites up to date. BTK officials added that they call the content providers before removing a content, and they were against the website blockings.

However, informing bianet Mezopotamya Ajans said that BTK didn’t contact them.

Mezopotamya Ajans continues its broadcasting on this website.

Özgürlükçü Demokrasi Gazetesi continues its broadcasting on this website. (EA/TK)