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Our business website has been banned in Turkey, well a part of it has. On our a business website there is an instructional video clip that shows how our product works. It was convenient to host the video clip on YouTube.
I get here to Bursa, Turkey and attempt to show website to client only to find the video portion is a blank. What gives. Then I discover this.
Back in the office in Istanbul, I discuss the YouTube thing with him and he shrugs his shoulders.
This is really a amazing place in so many ways. The people have all be so incredibly hospitable. The dining (as ever) is a wonderful and very different experience, incredibly sophisticated in most of the places that I have eaten. The ferry ride across the Marmaris sea was great fun too. But it makes you reflective on the issue of free speech and right to information.
Back in hotel in Istanbul now and logged on with the free hotel WiFi. Informed Consent has not be banned... yet, so please no one even think of suggesting that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is a woofta!
| 2 Sep 09, 9:13 PM Litany UK(E), 10 yrs |
can someone at your office end use sendit , you upload a file , it sends an email with a link and you can watch the file from local machine "Litany, a poncy show-off with wit, a camera, and his own teeth *swoon*" | |
| 2 Sep 09, 9:24 PM MarcusStrapp UK(CB), 7 yrs |
Litany, cheers.
As it happened I had a copy on my laptop. After all I made the video in the first place But thanks for the suggestion.
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| 2 Sep 09, 10:01 PM Malbon UK(LS), 8 yrs |
A woman for duty A boy for pleasure But a melon for ecstasy Old Turkish proverb. | |
| 3 Sep 09, 9:41 AM flake_1 UK, 3 yrs |
Turkey is a country which regularly oppresses free speech, and controls its citizens very effectively via something called the NUFUS card. This is an identity card which tracks exactly where Turkish individuals are in the country. Any individual being persecuted by the state in one region is highly likely to be persecuted in another as the Jandarma or Police are allowed to add comments without conviction by a court. Torture although procribed by the state is still widespread, and it is difficult for victims to speak out thanks to the NUFUS system. Again LGBT rights are enshrined in Turkish law, but according to a Human Rights watch report of 2008 police have routinely raided gay bars beating the customers with truncheons and spraying pepper spray directly into the face. The cheif prosecutor refused to give permission for a criminal investigation. All gay men are barred from military service, the state regards it as a psychological abberation. "If they request such exemption, their sexual orientation is verified by means of degrading medical and psychological tests or by demanding proof of homosexuality.” The test involves an anal examniation. Of course for those exempted, the information is recorded on the computer system for all officials to see, and employment is severely restricted. "The same Canadian IRB document, dated 5 April 2007, also noted that “Transsexuals are persecuted in Turkey and the police often torment them by forcibly shaving their heads: Long hair is a symbol of femininity and cutting it off is a potent assault on the victim's sense of identity.” Womens rights are virtually non existstant, with honour killings and domestic violence being the norm: “Limited opportunities for women in the region and their limited access to education, employment, information, health services and justice are major constraints to their rights as citizens, potential political power, ability to negotiate the terms of their existence and finding redress for their problems. Local women's voices must be heard and their initiatives supported. Without a reliable institutional and legal framework guaranteeing their rights and protection, women's individual and collective resistance can bring fatal consequences.” [20d] A Sky News investigation dated 12 November 2007, reported that women were being forced to commit suicide for bringing dishonour on their families. This is just a short piece concentrating on a few areas, but there is a whole load more. The reason for me writing it is the British governments short sighted policy of EU enlargement to allow Turkey to join the EU. I urge every right thinking person to oppose Turkish accession to the EU until it can be seen to have made a complete change in freedom of speech and minority rights. I do not wish to see a state which tacitly uses torture on a routine basis soil the good name of the EU | |
| 3 Sep 09, 12:36 PM masterkim UK(BS), 6 yrs |
IC amongst other things are banned in Iraq too, where I recently had to work
Somebody said to me that the only way to totally defeat the closed minds of the muslim world in Iraq was to drop a million copies of Playboy and Mayfair over the land and let nature take it's course! Look on the bright side, at least you were not promoting Christianity in Turkey, especially after a million christians were slaughtered in the early 1900s Don't you love free speech! A kiss is just a kiss, but a whiplash lasts until morning. Edited 3 Sep 09, 12:43 PM by masterkim | |
| 3 Sep 09, 1:20 PM Falcon4451 UK(BD), 9 yrs |
You would have thought that Turkey and Iraq would be all for IC. because they specialise in all forms of brutality and oppression, the site might give them some new ideas and handy hints. Maybe its the Consent bit thats upestting em. | |
| 3 Sep 09, 7:43 PM nortyboy UK, 4 yrs |
Sounds like what life might be like under the BNP if they ever got in power here. |