Thursday, June 16, 2011

Turkey bans use of Google, services

Turkey has placed an indefinite ban on the use of the search engine Google for "legal" reasons. The country has also placed bans on google IP addresses without listing any reasons for doing so.

Other Google owned features, such as document sharing and YouTube have also been banned indefinitely in the country. Even Facebook is not allowed in Turkey. When people attempt to access those sites while within the borders of that country, they are brought to a site which tells them "access to this site is banned by court order."

Looks like we won't be able to use Facebook or Google while we're in Turkey. Oh darn.

You can see the full article here.