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Turkey’s Information Technologies and Communications Authority was breached by Anonymous hackers as part of Operation Digiturk. The operation was launched after the one of the country’s satellite television providers, Digiturk, blocked a couple of blogs that were hosting copyrighted materials.
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14 February 2012
10:33 GMT |
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A Turkish hacker collective defaced the personal website of Valerie Boyer (valerie-boyer.fr), a member of the French parliament, as a result of the fact that she authored a bill that fines and imprisons anyone who denies genocide acts.
According to The Hacker News, Boyer called the police after she and her family re... |
27 December 2011
10:39 GMT |
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Holidays are the perfect occasion to waste food. Perfectly eatable leftovers fill trash containers every year, as we finish cleaning the mess left behind by our Thanksgiving dinner. This may come as a surprise, but what we could have eaten triggers 1 million tons of CO2 emissions that will reach the atmosphere and al... |
26 November 2011
05:38 GMT |
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake that struck the eastern parts of Turkey on Sunday, October 23, had a magnitude of about 7.2. The event occurred at around 1:41 pm local time (10:41 UTC), and caught people completely off-guard. The area in this NASA image focused just west of Lak... |
25 October 2011
01:08 GMT |
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On Monday, Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin tried to estimate the damages caused by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake which hit Turkey. It seems that 117 people lost their lives in Ercis region, while other 100 people were killed in Van. The devastating phenomenon made approximately 740 other victims, but it's still ... |
24 October 2011
08:22 GMT |
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Ellen DeGeneres proves that not only children from third world countries should experience the benefits of being adopted. She has recently placed herself among the individuals who fight against animal cruelty.
This year, she is advising us to take the turkey out of our Thanksgiving menu, and bring it in our househo... |
20 October 2011
08:48 GMT |
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Until now, the archaeological site at Göbekli Tepe, in Turkey, was thought to have revealed the most ancient temples ever discovered. However, in a new study, a team of experts casts doubt on the nature of the constructions, suggesting that they were not in fact homes for the gods.
The University of Toronto ... |
10 October 2011
06:42 GMT |
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Yandex, the popular Russian search engine and portal, is expanding into its first non-Russian speaking country, Turkey. While geographically close to Russia, Turkey will be a unique challenge for Yandex which has flourished in its home market, but hasn't tried its luck elsewhere so far, until now.
Yandex open... |
20 September 2011
10:10 GMT |
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If there were any more doubts that Facebook is a global phenomenon, you only need to look at the most popular countries on the site, i.e. the ones with most users, to see the clear trend.The US sits at the top, of course, but below it sit several big and mostly understated countries which have tens of millions of Fac... |
23 August 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Members of the Anonymous collective have hacked and defaced over one hundred websites belonging to the Turkish government in a campaign against Internet censorship in the country.In addition to defacing 74 websites with the Anonymous logo and a message for the government, the hackers also leaked information extracted... |
7 July 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Turkish authorities have arrested 32 individuals believed to be linked to the distributed denial of service attacks against government websites that were recently launched by Anonymous.Last week, members of the notorious hacktivist group protested against the Turkish government's plan to enact country-wide Inter... |
13 June 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Turkish internet users have had enough. The government regularly blocks websites it doesn't like, backed up by rather draconian laws and liberal interpretations, some as big as YouTube, and now it plans to introduce voluntary internet filters that would block certain websites and content. It also plans to ban so... |
16 May 2011
09:20 GMT |
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According to the latest archaeological evidence, it would appear that the Black Sea basin was heavily battered by numerous floods over the past hundreds of thousands of years. Clues that this happened were discovered on the walls of caves in surrounding countries. In a new study, an international collaboration of sc... |
17 March 2011
06:14 GMT |
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Google is having problems in Turkey again, Blogger has been blocked entirely in the country by a local court. The issue, this time, is with copyrighted content, streams of football matches showing up on various Blogger blogs. The solution, a local media company believed, was to block millions of blogs and millions of... |
5 March 2011
06:56 GMT |
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Turkey is investigating the possibility that a cyberattack has crashed the country's customs system causing significant bottlenecks at frontier checkpoints.Last week, the computer system used at Turkish customs suffered a downtime of several days after experiencing severe problems.The technical issues forced wor... |
8 February 2011
10:56 GMT |
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The situation of YouTube's availability in Turkey is getting murkier by the minute. A two-year ban was lifted over the weekend, however, YouTube has since restored the videos that were the cause of the dispute paving the way for another ban. The site was, in fact, blocked again for a period yesterday, but then u... |
3 November 2010
08:11 GMT |
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A 30-month ban on YouTube in Turkey was lifted on Saturday. Users can now visit the site freely again, but this may not last as the videos which were the source of the ban have now been restored by YouTube, after being taken down last week following a copyright infringement complaint.Turkey banned the site after a nu... |
2 November 2010
10:31 GMT |
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The YouTube ban in Turkey has been lifted, according to officials. This came after videos that the country found offensive were removed from the site. While Google has confirmed that it's starting to see some traffic coming from Turkey, it says it has no direct involvement with the removal of the videos and that... |
1 November 2010
10:22 GMT |
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Research In Motion (RIM) faces a ban of BlackBerry data services in Turkey if it doesn't comply with new legislation, requiring all manufacturers to hand over communication encryption keys to authorities.Under the newly passed law, the country's Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), wi... |
26 October 2010
06:20 GMT |
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The oldest Roman baths in Asia Minor were discovered this summer in Sagalassos, Turkey, by an archaeological team led by Professor Dr Marc Waelkens, L. Baert-Hofman Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.For the last 21 years, Waelkens has directed excavations at... |
10 September 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Scientists from the University of Exeter, Exeter, UK and Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey have studied the role that coffee houses had in the evolution of the consumer.Coffee houses are usually full of people, gathered around a good cup of coffee and having an interesting conversation, what is currently called &ldq... |
25 August 2010
04:45 GMT |
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In its long-lasting battle against YouTube, Turkey officials banned a new set of Google-owned IPs in an attempt to stop Turkish Internet users from accessing the dreaded video platform. According to the online edition of the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet, Turkey’s Telecommunications Communication Presidency (... |
5 June 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced recently an agreement with Turkcell, a leading wireless carrier in Turkey, aimed at the introduction of Nokia Messaging service in the country. According to the company, Nokia's consumer messaging service will arrive on Turkcell's airwaves starting with the first ... |
19 February 2010
06:05 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced recently the launch of its high-end BlackBerry Bold 9700 device on the market in Turkey, via leading communications company Turkcell. According to the company, the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone is available for Turkcell customers for a monthly plan that ... |
22 January 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Some countries are giving out free Internet, others are making it a legal right. But Turkey has its sights set on even higher goals, providing all of its 70 million citizens with an email address and creating its very own search engine to replace the untrustworthy Googles and Bings of the world. The head of Turkey&r... |
30 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Just recently, the city of Istanbul saw the opening and commissioning of the world's largest and safest earthquake-proof building in the world. The structure covers an impressive area, but it's completely isolated from the ground below. It does not rest on the soil, but rather on a few hundred bearings, whi... |
23 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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There's no shortage of companies or even countries wanting to get their hands on some of Google's wealth, sometimes rightfully so, though, most of the times, the claims are a little weak. Now, Turkey is having a go at it by claiming that Google owes the country 71 million Turkish Lira (approx. €32 mill... |
3 November 2009
10:50 GMT |
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Turkish authorities seem to have their own notions of free speech, as they proved on March 16th, when they actually deported two peaceful activists with the International Rivers environmental nonprofit group, who showcased a banner at the World Water Forum. The material said “No Risky Dams,” and was a dir... |
18 March 2009
03:27 GMT |
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A serious plane crash has taken place today in Holland, when a Turkish airliner collapsed to the ground while carrying 135 people. Preliminary reports hint at the fact that light fog was responsible for the crash, which nevertheless claimed the lives of 9 people, according to Dutch airport officials. An additional 50... |
25 February 2009
14:01 GMT |
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If you're planning to go shopping for Christmas wrapping paper this year, enjoy it, because it may be the last year when festive wrapping paper is actually made from, well, paper. Next year, you could witness the introduction of a new kind of decorative paper, made up of turkey feathers. It would appear that Bri... |
24 December 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Neonode N2, the Sweden-manufactured small and fashionable touchscreen handset released this year, is now officially being launched in Turkey. The device should go on sale staring November, after its official presentation, which will take place during CeBIT Eurasia 2008, the event held in Istanbul between October 7 an... |
3 October 2008
05:30 GMT |
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While North America is still waiting for it, RIM's latest high-end smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9000, is being released in more and more non-American countries. The latest market to get the Bold is Turkey, the Eurasian country that has a population of slightly over 70 million. RIM has launched the Bold via ... |
19 August 2008
04:29 GMT |
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The Turkish cyberspace is dealing with serious problems regarding censorship. For the past two years ago, several video hosting websites have been banned. Their creators were accused of infringing upon the integrity of different public persons or institutions. YouTube itself was banned a couple of times, but it'... |
18 August 2008
08:25 GMT |
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Paris Hilton has a very good opinion about herself - that much is fact. In fact, it's safe to call Paris Hilton her own biggest fan - however, most would agree that it's not that wise to go public with that particular opinion, all the more so since the vast majority of this planet's inhabitants have a ... |
29 March 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Bad news for Americans everywhere: Paris Hilton abandoned the land of the stars and stripes and is now intent on conquering other nations and continents. The starlet is currently accompanying her new beau, Benji Madden, and his band Good Charlotte on a world tour that has already taken them to Africa. The happy duo -... |
28 March 2008
06:01 GMT |
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This is the Turkish World's Wonder. In the residual relief made of tuffs and basalt lava, persecuted Christians carved churches, monasteries and dwellings. Goreme National Park, with a surface of 9,576 hectares, is located in central Anatolia, between the volcanic mountains Hasan and Erciyes, in the Nevsehir Pro... |
20 March 2008
09:55 GMT |
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I know that when it comes to celebrities there's always a good chance to hear something either incredibly witty or incredibly stupid coming out of their mouths - and as a general remark, I'd tend to point out the fact that it's more often the latter than the former. We've heard celebrities gush ou... |
22 January 2008
06:55 GMT |
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When you're most bored and have nothing to do, you start surfing the Internet and in particular the social networks in order to see how your friends have been doing. I don't know if that's the way it works for you, it does for me. And while merrily browsing through my account on MySpace, I just chanced... |
21 January 2008
06:11 GMT |
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YouTube has a lot of problems on its hands because of the copyright infringement that is being forced against by the protected content its users upload. It's always been kind of a ballet of jumping over lawsuits and pivoting around big bucks decisions. The bad part with it all is that they mean almost nothing in... |
21 January 2008
02:38 GMT |
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The truth was out there. It's here right now: World of Warcraft is made in Turkey and there's no doubt about it. And it might be cotton, too. If you think I'm losing my mind, please click the thumbnail to the left, you will immediatelyunderstand.That is a picture made by a guy named Paul, somewhere in ... |
26 November 2007
04:36 GMT |
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Following yesterday's news that Google updated the search engine suggestions, a new update is revealed today as the Mountain View company's officials confirmed that this feature is now available in several new countries. A few days ago it was reported that Google has been working on the 'Did you mean&#... |
18 October 2007
03:01 GMT |
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The well-known video sharing YouTube is again banned in Turkey after its users uploaded insulting clips concerning the country's authorities. In case you forgot, YouTube was first blocked in Turkey in March for the same reason. At that time, a user uploaded videos insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a national hero... |
19 September 2007
05:19 GMT |
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Every day brings a new flavor of the Google products because the folks from the Mountain View company continuously struggle to expand the services of the giant. However, today Analytics, the famous solution powered by Google, gets two new versions that are meant to complete the recently rolled out updates. If you did... |
25 July 2007
03:32 GMT |
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Google's advertising platform makes an impressive trip around the world as the parent company is continuously promoting and releasing new flavors in every country on earth. Inside AdSense - the blog that is meant to keep the consumers up-to-date with the latest news concerning the advertising platform - is now a... |
26 June 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Google Maps was recently improved with multiple locations, the parent company including fresh imagery with detailed roads, buildings and cities. However, the Mountain View-based company didn't announce the update officially, Google Earth Blog reported that high-resolution photos are now available for Russia, Tur... |
27 April 2007
06:17 GMT |
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Some time ago, numerous Turkish Internet users signed a petition to require the search giant Google to place doodles on their regional version of the search giant. The Turkish Googlers considered the Mountain View based firm is avoiding to publish new logos on their page and designed their own Google doodles to celeb... |
24 April 2007
05:22 GMT |
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Once in a while, Google replaces its official and well-known logo with a new one especially meant to celebrate certain events or a national day. Because the search giant has Google domains in almost every big country of the world, it's very difficult to manage and organize the doodles for every regional version ... |
3 April 2007
09:28 GMT |
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YouTube Turkey is again available after the largest ISP in the country blocked the service after a court decision. A court ordered the ISP to restrict the access to the video service after numerous users uploaded clips that insulted Turkey's residents and demanded the search giant to remove all the movies from t... |
12 March 2007
09:12 GMT |
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YouTube is one of the most popular video-sharing services on the Internet, allowing users to upload, share and comment movies with other members of the community. Because it allows all the registered members to publish their videos, Google received several complaints, the company being accused for uploading content w... |
7 March 2007
10:01 GMT |
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