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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 27th, 2007

America’s prominent weekly Newsweek’s International Edition covered raising Islamisation in Turkey. The article “The End of Secularism” written by Soner Cagaptay, a leading scholar in Turkish Politics and a senior fellow in Washington Institute.

In his article, Dr. Cagaptay expressed a deeply concern about the future of secularism in Turkey and wrote on his article:

But given the direction in which Turkey’s headed, it [secularism] could well become a history

For after some 80 years, Turkish secularism is withering away.

According to Dr. Cagaptay, election of Islamist Gul as President, Islamisation shall accelerate:

Now the AKP, a party with an Islamist pedigree, seems set to elect its foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, as president. Once marginal, Turkey’s Islamists have become mainstream, and the consequences could prove enormous.

Dr. Capaptay concludes his article with a dim outlook :

The AKP is unlikely to end Turkish secularism overnight. Gradually, however, religion will assume a larger and larger place in the country’s politics and society. Turkey will become a more Islamic society in its foreign-policy outlook and culture. Anti-Western sentiments will grow. Headscarves, religious education and the rejection of alcohol will become more common. The Turkey of old will slowly disappear, leaving in its place a profoundly different—and potentially much more unstable—nation.

• AK Party , AKP , Gül , Islamisation , Secularism , Turkey
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