Google faces prohibition in Turkey

Citing some legal reasons, the Republic of Turkey has imposed a ban on Internet search giant Google. Many of the services offered by Google such as translate.google.com, books.google.com, Google-analytics.com, tools.google.com, docs.google.com have been blocked in the country by related authorities.

The Telecommunications Communications Presidency in an official statement has announced the imposition of ban on Google Internet Protocol addresses due to some legal reasons. Also, the duration of this ban is still not clear.

Youtube.com is already banned in the country for since May 5, 2008. The video content based site is inaccessible in Turkey for containing some derogatory videos related to Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

The move has hit Internet users and industries the most leaving them with pending net related works for an indefinite period of time. Many people criticized the YouTube ban two years, arguing that it is illogical to ban the whole site for a single video. Similar voices are rising with this action of government.
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