İSTANBUL DISPATCHES

@Jim_Colella

İSTANBUL DISPATCHES

REDHACK HAS THE GOVERNMENT on the run. Their only defence against RedHack’s attacks on state websites appears to be either to shut the Internet in Turkey down, or to label them as “terrorists”:

The government declared RedHack a “terrorist organization”, keyboards and screens as “weapons”, PlayStation CD’s as “evidence,” and turned over the RedHack case to special prosecutors.

— Source: Anonymous

Never mind the fact that all you need to hack a Turkish police website is the password “123456”, the last I heard was that the criteria for committing acts of “terror” was to kill innocent civilians.

Not that we should expect much else from a nation that locks up stone-throwing kids for “terrorism”, but if keyboards & screens are weapons too, then there’s a global supply of terrorists waiting in the wings… in a war the state can only lose.

(Source: youtu.be)

In Turkey, which is also Partly Free, the score declined by one point as the government continued to crack down on unfavorable press coverage in 2011.

Constitutional guarantees of freedom of the press and expression are only partially upheld in practice, undermined by restrictive provisions in the criminal code and Anti-Terrorism Act.

Due to detentions stemming from investigations into the alleged Ergenekon conspiracy to overthrow the government, as well as a case involving suspected ties to an alleged Kurdish militant group, Turkey now has one of the highest numbers of imprisoned journalists in the world.

Freedom House Freedom of the Press 2012 Full Release Booklet

Freedom House Freedom of the Press 2012 Rankings for Western Europe. The burning question for Turkey is: To EU or not to EU?
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Freedom House Freedom of the Press 2012 Rankings for Western Europe. The burning question for Turkey is: To EU or not to EU?