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:
1. 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