Turkish LAMBDA Association Members Protest for LGBT Rights.
Photo by Hurriyet Daily News (English Edition)
By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) Oct 9 | The government of Turkey's Telecommunication Directorate has shut down the two largest Gay & Lesbian websites-hadigayri.com and gabile.com. Both sites have a combined total membership of around 200,000 individuals.
According to administrators and members of the websites,
"The sites do not contain any pornographic or criminal content." The directorate blocked the sites without providing any information to the owners or issuing a demand to take down certain content, site mangers said, "calling the action unlawful and arbitrary."
The Turkish Justice Ministry and then the judiciary had previously refused demands to close down Lambda İstanbul and Kaos GL, the city’s two main gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender organisations. Site managers said the new decision came after previous attempts to close down the online networks of members of these organizations.
“Both sites have a wide variety of content, with sections such as gay news, commentary, film, literature, radio, health and forums. The number of members of both sites from Turkey is around 225,000. The directorate is forcing members of these sites to appeal this decision,” read a joint statement from the sites.
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The two sites remain up and alive in the UK, certainly. So one assumes they are hosted outside Turkey and that only national access is blocked. But that is bad since it is the target audience.
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