Access to Playboy website banned in Turkey
Turkey has put a ban on the website of the well-known Playboy magazine, Turkish blogs inform. According to Turkish bloggers, Turkey continues to be a country of prohibitions and limitations. This time a ban was put on Playboy. Bloggers say, the website was banned on August 6, with the religious holidays after the fasting month of Ramadan on the doorstep. Access to the site was suspended without a related court decision. However, this is not the first case Turkey has banned a website.
Access to the global video sharing site YouTube.com has been banned since 5 May 2008 under allegations of "hosting contents against Atatürk" after Ankara court passed a decision on it.
Decision on Playboy ban, taken on August 6, is based on an "a legal evaluation and a technical investigation carried out in the scope of index crimes according to law no. 5651".