TURKEY BLOCKS 3,700 WEBSITES

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.01.2010 14:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Europe’s main security and human rights watchdog
accused Monday Turkey of blocking some 3,700 Internet sites for
"arbitrary and political reasons".

Miklos Haraszti, media freedom monitor for the 56-nation Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said Turkey’s Internet
law is "failing to preserve free expression in the country and should
be reformed or abolished."

"In its current form, Law 5651, commonly known as the Internet Law of
Turkey, not only limits freedom of expression, but severely restricts