Islamist Turkey Passes Internet Censorship Bill

Demonstrators hold placards during a protest against Internet censorship in Istanbul.

Fighting Fascism

The Islamist Turkish government is frightened to

death of Internet freedom

The Islamist dominated Turkish Parliament adopted late Feb. 5 a new Internet bill that has been harshly criticized for implementing measures that could potentially further restrict access to the web.

The measures were adopted by the General Assembly after a tense session during which opposition MPs blasted the bill as "censorship."

The bill includes controversial arrangements such as granting the president of the Directorate of Telecommunication (TİB) the authority to block access to sites and pages on his own initiative, in the event of appeals concerning violation of the right to private life. Such a decision would not require approval from a court reports the Turkish Weekly.

 

Among the sites blocked or fined under the existing law were video sharing services YouTube and Vimeo, blogging tool Wordpress and several online media outlets.

 The new arrangements have also caused serious concerns as they would mandate data retention of between one and two years.  (That way the government and spy on you retroactively.)

 

Clashes in Turkey over Internet censorship

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turks Marching for Internet Freedom

 

 

When you came to power you talked of enhancing democracy in Turkey – now you are trying to implement fascism,” opposition MP Hasan Oren charged.

 

"This is against the constitution,” fellow opposition legislator Umut Oran said. “Bans like this exist in times of coups and have not been able to conceal any corruption."

 The government maintains that the draft bill is designed to “protect the family, children and youth from items on the Internet that encourage drug addiction, sexual abuse and suicide.” It says similar laws exist in Western countries and rejects comparisons to China, notorious for its drastic censorship of the Internet.

The bill also comes as the government faces massive graft allegations and strong criticism for having undertaken works on a judicial bill that increased the executive’s grasp over the judiciary. Many leaks of alleged corruption evidence have been posted online in recent weeks.
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 The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said the new powers for the TİB mean it would be able to "gather communications data about all Internet users without any legal limits or restrictions," with users "never ... able to know when and how this information is gathered."

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) also released a statement warning that the measures on will further undermine press freedoms if it passes into law, describing the move as a "slide into Internet authoritarianism" in a country that is the "the leading jailer of journalists worldwide."

Reporters Without Borders said the aim is "to reinforce cyber-censorship, government control of the Internet and surveillance."

The Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) was also critical, saying the proposals "conflict with the principles of checks and balances" and would increase censorship and deter investors.

Last week, Umut Oran, deputy leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), was ordered by the TİB to remove a parliamentary question from his website.

The question, which the media was also told to not report on had referred to purported recordings of phone calls involving the prime minister, his son and a minister.

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A Turkish Islamic Police State

Now the Islamist Turkish government is tightening

its grip on the Internet.

Turkey is seeking to increase control over internet access at a time when the government is also tightening its grip on the country’s legal institutions in response to a corruption scandal.

 

A legislative proposal put forward by the ruling AK party would give the transport and communication minister the power to block websites deemed to infringe privacy, as well as compelling internet service providers to retain information of their customers’ movements on the net.

The measure, attached to an omnibus bill, increasing its chances of passage, would also require ISPs to restrict access to proxy sites, which can allow users to circumvent censorship reports the Financial Times.

Turkey already has internet filters intended to protect children and made 1,673 requests for Google to remove material from the web in the first six months of last year – more than three times any other country – although most of its requests were turned down.
 

But some critics have alleged that the legislative initiative is part of a general trend in which the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister, is concentrating more power in the wake of a corruption investigation that has targeted a host of figures connected to the government, including four former ministers and Mr Erdogan’s own son, Bilal.

“These are politically motivated measures to curb the free flow of information on the internet even further in Turkey,” said Yaman Akdeniz, a law professor at Istanbul’s Bilgi University. “Looking at the current political climate, it is primarily for controlling the leaking of videos and WikiLeaks kind of documents.”

Last week, the government proposed legislation that would increase the justice ministry’s powers over the council that supervises Turkey’s judges and prosecutors - a move that the council’s acting chairman said, on behalf of a majority of its members, was unconstitutional and violates the separation of powers. Violence broke out at a discussion of these measures on Saturday, with a ruling party MP aiming a kick at a senior judge’s head. On Sunday,  Erdogan criticised the judge who was attacked in the brawl, calling him not a lawyer but a “militant”.

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The government has also removed hundreds of police officers from their posts in the weeks since the corruption inquiry began on December 17.  Erdogan has attacked the probe as a “judicial coup” and a “modern coup, staged by friends” – a reference to the movement of Fethullah Gulen, a preacher and former ally who has broken with the AKP and has many followers in the police, prosecution service and judiciary.
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While AKP officials says Gulenists in Turkey’s legal institutions are using the investigation as part of a feud against Mr Erdogan, the massive shifts of personnel in the police and among the prosecutors handling the case have made it harder for it to progress or for new lines of inquiry to be opened.

With hostilities intensifying between the AKP and the Gulenists, expectations had been growing that further revelations of alleged corrupt behaviour could be leaked on the internet. In recent years, a number of recordings involving high profile figures in Turkish public life have mysteriously appeared on the web.

However, the new legislative proposal on the internet could allow the government to shut down access to such videos.

Ankara’s push for greater powers has also raised concerns in Washington and Brussels. “The US supports the desire of the Turkish people for a legal system . . . where no one is above the law and where allegations against public figures are investigated impartially,” said Jen Psaki, state department spokeswoman, last week in the Obama administration’s latest expression of exasperation with Erdogan. “We’ve expressed our concerns about some of the events that are happening directly, publicly and privately, and we’ll continue to do that.”

Police tear gas & water cannon Turkish secularists

Turkish police use tear gas and water cannons to try to break up a demonstration by tens of thousands of pro-secular protesters, but the march to mark the founding of the Turkish republic went on in defiance of a government ban.

The celebration of the founding of the Turkish republic has in the past few years become a symbol of the divide between Prime Minister Recep Erdogan's elected, Islamic-leaning government and its opponents who fear the country's secular traditions are in danger. 

Police have arrested a number of journalists, in a crackdown
on an alleged "seditious" secularist network.

A Greater Islamist Turkey
The map above was distributed "accidentally" to students by the Turkish Department of Education.  The map shows an enhanced Greater Turkey absorbing the nation of Cypress, along with parts of Iraq, Iran, Georgia, Armenia, Bulgaria and Greece.  (for more)

100th Anniversary of the Balkan Wars of Liberation Against Islamic Rule



A troop of Turkish soldiers pose with their rifles, circa 1912 or 1913.



Christian Wars of Liberation in Europe

• For nearly 500 years Christians fought wars against Jihadist Muslim Turks to liberate the conquered peoples of the Balkans from Islamic oppression. 
• But a politically correct Europe refuses to celebrate this anniversary.  So here I am to do my little part.

2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the last of the wars to liberate Europe from the dictatorial and terrorist rule of militant Islam.

We have not seen any parades or fireworks in Europe marking the event.  After all, it is not politically correct these days to identify Islam for what it is.  But our ancestors had no problem marching to the front lines to do battle with evil and free the peoples of Europe from Islamic oppression.

The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkan Peninsula in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.

By the early 20th century, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia had achieved independence from the Muslim Ottoman Empire, but large elements of their ethnic populations remained under Ottoman rule. In 1912, these countries formed the Balkan League.

Four Balkan states defeated the Muslim Ottoman Empire in the first war; one of the four, Bulgaria, was defeated in the second war. The Ottoman Empire lost nearly all of its holdings in Europe.

Ottoman Empire lost almost all its European territories to the west of the River Maritsa, drawing present day Turkey's western border. Large influx of Turks started to flee into the Ottoman heartland as a result of the occupied lands by the allies. By 1914, the remaining core region of the Ottoman Empire had experienced a population increase of around 2.5 million because of the flood of immigration from Balkans.

See more at the Balkan Wars.

The Bosnian Crisis of 1908 altered the balance of power in the Balkans and

precipitated events that would lead to the formation of the Balkan League.

(Cover of the French periodical Le Petit Journal.)

Albanian fighters in the employ of the Ottomans ready for a battle with Serbian forces in a photograph dated from 1912. At the conclusion of the First Balkan War, Albania—controlled by Serb and Greek troops—was designated to be an independent country.

Bulgarian troops camp outside the city of Adrianpole (now Edirne, Turkey) after capturing it; the end of the grueling five month siege of the strategic Thracian city, on the road to Istanbul, effectively ended the First Balkan War in March 1913. The minarets of the famous Selimiye Mosque can be seen in the distance.

Macedonian rebels advance along the road to Salonica (now Thessalonika, Greece), then a bustling, largely Jewish port city under Ottoman control, in a photo dated from 1912.

A group of Greek soldiers gather around a large gun on a barren
hillside in a photo dated from 1913.

Bulgarian airmen prepare for a mission to drop a bomb by hand on Adrianople (now Edirne, Turkey), from their Bleriot XI aircraft, during the First Balkan War, circa 1913. The Bulgarian Air Force was the first to use aircraft for offensive military action.

Soldiers pose with their weapons on the sidelines of a
battlefield in an undated photograph.

Two Ottoman soldiers flee the scene of the Battle of Lula Burgas, fought between Oct. 28-Nov. 3, 1912, where a Bulgarian advance routed the Turks and triggered fears that the Ottoman capital Istanbul could fall.

In a photo taken in 1912, Ottoman soldiers sport the their "fez" caps, headgear traditional to the whole region, across faiths. A generation later, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey's stern and secular modernizer, would ban the fez from his military.

Soldiers remove the dead from the battlefield at Adrianople
during the First Balkan War.



A column of Bulgarian soldiers marches through the mountain pass of Belagradchick
along the Serbian border in a photo dated from 1912.

Turkish commander Fouad Bey made prisoner by the Serbians in
Koumanovo at the Belgrade fortress, 1912.



(world.time.com/tag/ottoman-empire)



The Liberation of European Christians
Jihadist Muslim Turks (in red and tan) controlled much of the Balkans.
The Muslims were twice beating at the gates of Vienna, Austria in wars.
The Turks had conquered all of the Balkans reducing the Christian population to
near slaves in their own nations.  In war after war the Austrians and Russians
slowly pushed the Muslims out and liberated Christians peoples.

 

By the late 19th century the modern nations of the Balkans
began to appear after centuries of oppressive Muslim rule.
The Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913 liberated almost all of Europe
from the Muslim Ottoman Turks.

Fatwa Bans Men From Wearing Earrings, Tattoos

The Turkish Directorate General for Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has issued a fatwa stating that tattoos are not in accordance with Islam.

“The same way that they are harmful for health, they are prohibited by religion,” the body’s High Committee of Religious Affairs said on Nov. 2, in response to a question over whether tattoos were permissible reports the Hurriyet Daily News.

“In Islam, drawing attention [to oneself] and changing the properties and form given by birth is considered to be altering creation, and is therefore banned,” the Diyanet said, adding that the practice dated back to the pre-Islamic “age of ignorance.”

The statement also mentioned that the Prophet Muhammad said that those who changed how they were created were distancing themselves from God’s mercy and grace.

“Therefore, getting tattoos is not permissible,” it concluded.

The Diyanet also clarified that Islam disapproved of earrings and other such piece of jewelry in men.

“Muslim man should keep away from using jewelry that is proper for women, because our Prophet ordered: Men who try to resemble women and women who try to resemble men stand apart from God’s mercy and grace,” the statement said, adding that this would be considered “mekruh,” in other words “almost illicit.”

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Islamic sex shop opens - Halal oils & Islamic approved oral sex tips

Turkey's first Islamic sex shop opens

A "Halal Sex Shop" says their products are in

compliance with Islamic norms (baaa).

An online Islamic sex shop selling condoms, massage oils and perfumes has been launched in Turkey, becoming the first of its kind in the Muslim country.

The "Halal Sex Shop" website presents its products as being "entirely safe," and in compliance with Islamic norms.

Internet users who enter the site find two different links directing them to separate sections for male and female products says France24 News.

Other sections of the website are designed to discuss sex in the context of Islam under various headings: "Oral sex according to Islam", "Sex manners in Islam" and "Sexual life in Islam."

The anonymous founders of the website said they believed the online shop would help correct prejudices against Islam which they claimed is perceived as "against sex."

"The religion of Islam has praised sex under certain circumstances," they wrote on the site.

"The use of every product on sale is in compliance with Islam."

Turkey does have so-called "erotic shops" in its streets, however Islamic conservative Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested last year they rename themselves "love shops."

Customer Reaction to Sex Shop Grand Opening

Grand Opening
Halal sex videos, Mohammad approved body oils,
sex tips and more.