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saloma · Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 211

Has anyone noticed that besides YouTube, Blogspot has also been banned now? Anyone know why (this time)?

How annoying.

jamessmart50 · Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 91 Location: Istanbul, Turkey

You can access youtube etc by going to

vtunnel.com

or

ktunnel.com

easy

TeachEnglish · Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 239

There is another easier way. You have to change a file in your C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc directory and you can access it with no problems. Vtunnel and Ktunnel were too slow for me. You can download this file and replace the "host" file in the above directory. http://rapidshare.com/files/165588683/hosts.html This is a rapidshare download.

saloma · Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 211

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10419495.asp?scr=1

Turkish PM confesses he can access YouTube despite the ban

Turkish Prime Minister surprised everybody when he said that he can access the video-sharing website, YouTube, despite the ban implemented by courts for almost a year.

Tayyip Erdogan said he watched the ceremony of the main opposition party, CHP, in which headscarf-wearing women became the members of the party on YouTube. Erdogan spoke to reporters late on Thursday on his plane en route to India.

Erdogan said he can access the YouTube when the reporters reminded him the ban. "I can access (YouTube), you do it, too," he replied.

Two courts ordered ban on YouTube in response to videos that it deemed insulting to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Under the Turkish law, it is crime to insult Ataturk.

Experts say there are many other ways to access the YouTube despite the ban, however they remind that all of these methods are illegal.