Turkey’s Information and Communication Technology Authority (BTK) has blocked access to Wikipedia across the country on Saturday after the internet encyclopedia refused to take down offensive content.
The popular U.S. based internet encyclopedia failed to comply with 4 requests made by Turkey to take down the disputed content.
Access to Wikipedia was blocked early on the morning of April 29 as internet users in Turkey were greeted with a message that read:
“(After technical analysis and legal consideration based on the Law Nr. 5651, ADMINISTRATION MEASURE has been taken for this website (wikipedia.org) according to Decision Nr. 490.05.01.2017.-182198 dated 29/04/2017 implemented by Information and Communication Technologies Authority.)”
The BTK said that access to Wikipedia will be restored upon compliance with Turkey’s requests in removing the disputed content.
