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Kerem Altıparmak, assistant professor of law at Ankara University, told bianet that Youtube must be lifted immediately in Turkey, a condition that otherwise required a Constitutional Court decision.

Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) stated that YouTube ban must continue.Telecommunication lawyer Gökhan Ahi said that BTK insisted on YouTube ban arbitrarily despite the court verdict.

PEN’s 64 leading writers from Turkey and around expressed their concern regarding the Twitter and YouTube ban in Turkey, calling for access to be restored immediately.

An Ankara court dismissed the appeal filed by İNTED against the access ban of 44 IP addresses that provided access to YouTube. Thus, the access ban imposed on YouTube 2 years ago will persist. 2,000 people demonstrated in Istanbul against internet censorship.

In the context of the access ban for the YouTube website, Transport Minister Yıldırım addressed YouTube officials, "You will be treated just the same way as the ordinary people are treated in the Turkish Republic.