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Article: Turkey blocks access to YouTube in response to video allegedly insulting Ataturk
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- March 13, 2008
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Turkey on Thursday blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube in response to a video clip allegedly insulting the country's founding father, state-run media said.
A prosecutor in the Turkish capital of Ankara asked a court ban access to the Web site due to a video clip that the prosecutor deemed was disrespectful of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey's revered founder who died seven decades ago, state-run Anatolia news agency said.
The court complied and it was not clear how long ...