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June 7, 2010 4:58 PM EDT
Turkey has imposed an indefinite ban on Internet search engine Google and many of its services citing “legal” reasons.
In an official statement, Turkey’s Telecommunications Presidency said it has banned access to many of Google IP addresses without assigning clear reasons. The statement did not confirm if the ban is temporary or permanent.
Some Google services will be completely inaccessible or will take a long time to load, the statement said.
Google’s translation and document sharing sites have also been banned indefinitely along with YouTube and Facebook in the country. Other services such as AppEngine, FeedBurner, Analytics etc have also been reportedly banned.
The banned IP addresses include translate.google.com, books.google.com, Google-analytics.com, tools.google.com and docs.google.com.
When some of the services of Google are accessed by people, Turkey ISPs have redirected its users with a message that says “access to this site is banned by court order” without giving further details.
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Google’s video sharing- site YouTube was banned in 2008 for alleged insults against Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
China has already blocked access to YouTube after overseas Tibetan groups posted in March a video footage of China's crackdown on protests in Tibet.
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