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AKP Watch September 2nd, 2007

AKP Watch is sick and tired to write posts about Adnan Oktar, but he is not tired to seek court orders to ban bloggers in Turkey.  It’s look like Oktar committed to be an internet celebrity, even his fame will surpass famous Mahir of 99’s.

Bad news arrived as Jim Collela wrote on his blog: [CORRECTED] “the CNN Political Ticker Blog and Flickr Blog are also blocked because of the same court order (decision no.: 2007/195) enacted by Adnan Oktar.”

AKPWatch double checked and now it’s confirmed, the CNN Blog is also affected by the recent block of WordPress by AK Party connected Islamist/Creationist cult leader Adnan Oktar (a.k.a Harun Yahya). Oktar, acting like a proxy to AK Party, obtained a court order to block WordPress in Turkey which effected all WordPress powered sites, even the ones not using wordpress.com domain name, such as CNN Political Ticker and Yahoo owned Flickr Blog.

Adnan Oktar and his infamous creationist nonsense is very populer among AK Party circles, even an AK Party’s Gaziantep MP Ahmet Uzer distributed Oktar’s 800 pages Creationist book to member of parliments. (Source: mainstream turkish newspapers,  Radikal on 27/02/07, Sabah on 03/03/07, Vatan on 02/03/07) 

When MP Ahmet Uzer defended himself, he unintentionally revealed that Oktar’s creationist book –Atlas of Creation- approved by Ministry of Culture and Turism as a scientific book. (Source: OlayMedya)

Moreover AK Party officals decided that Adnan Oktar books will be purchased by all public libraries in Turkey. Currently legendary even poet Nazim Hikmet’s book are banned in public libraries in Turkey. (Source: Hurriyet on 03/02/07 and Hurriyet on 13/01/07)

Oktar and his famous book is favored among AK Party elements, for example, AKP appointed governors writes recommendation letters to distribute the book in the schools, multiple AK Party municipals including Ankara and Istanbul provides exhibition areas, childred from primary schools brought to those exhibitions, and more surprisingly Istanbul Governor approves Oktar aide to teach creationism seminars in schools (Source: mainstream Turkish newspapers, Hurriyet on 25/06/2006 and Radikal on 11/03/2007)

The fourth largest blogging platform in the world, WordPress, still remains banned in Turkey since 15th of August 2007.

• AK Party , AKP , Adnan Oktar , Censorship , Free Speech , Freedom of Press , Harun Yahya , Islamist , Turkey
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AKP Watch August 27th, 2007

It’s been reported that Flickr Blog  is also banned in Turkey, possible by AK Party connected the creationist/islamist Adnan Oktar.

Islamist Sect leader Adnan Oktar recently obtain a court order to block WordPress access in Turkey.

At time being the motivation behind the flickr ban is unknown, however the court order published on the page is very similar that of WordPress:

“Access to this site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/195 of T.C. Fatih 2.Civil Court of First Instance.”

Oktar previously obtained the court orders to block WordPress, eksisozluk.com (a turkish social dictionary) and superpoligon.com (another turkish news site)

We will update this post as soon as the details of court decision become available.

After following the Islamic rooted AK Party’s election victory and Islamist Abdullah Gul’s accession to Presidency, Turkey became much more authoritian country than before.

While AK Party’s assault on free speech and freedom of press increased significantly, radical islamist orders like Adnan Oktar and Fethullah Gülen flourished under AK Party rule. Nowadays It’s been no surprise to hear about banned internet sites and dismissed journalists in Turkey.

• AK Party , Adnan Oktar , Censorship , Flickr , Free Speech , Freedom of Press , Harun Yahya , Islamisation , Islamofascism
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AKP Watch August 20th, 2007

Well known AK Party connected Islamic Cult leader Adnan Oktar obtained a court order to block wordpress.com from Turkey.

People trying to visit WordPress.com from Turkey are seeing this message: “Access to this site has been suspended in accordance with decision no: 2007/195 of T.C. Fatih 2.Civil Court of First Instance.”

Adnan Oktar, also known as Harun Yahya, an islamist, spearheaded an effort to attack Turkish academics who taught evolutionary theory. A number of academics were harassed, threatened and slandered in fliers that labeled them “communistsand Maoists” for teaching evolution.

Oktar’s group had been found to engage in extensive criminal activity. These crimes included blackmail, possession of unlicensed weapons and sexual intercourse with individuals under age 18.  Oktar (recorded by police cameras, leaked and shown on Turkish TV channels such as Kanal D, ATV, Star) confessed to blackmailing people who they regarded as an obstacle to their enterprises. These people included the former reporters for the newspaper Hurriyet, Emin Colasan, and Fatih Altayli, after they questioned some of Harun Yahya’s activities such as bribing the municipality of Ankara.

Both of the journalists lost their posts later. Journalist Emin Colasan fired from his post in Hurriyet because of the heavy pressure from Islamic AK Party. Fatih Altayli also was forced to resign from his post as chief editor of daily newspaper Sabah.

Despite of the countless bribery scandals Ankara municipality is still led by AK Party’s Melih Gokcek who was the responsible of recent droughts in the city.

• AKP , Adnan Oktar , Free Speech , Freedom of Press , Harun Yahya , Islamist , Wordpress
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