The middle east country blocked all access in 2017 because some entries link Turkish authorities to terrorist activities
The country blocked all access in 2017, alleging some entries link Turkish authorities to terrorist activitiesAnkara — The foundation that runs Wikipedia said on Thursday it had filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights to lift Turkey’s two-year block on the website.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has filed suit against Turkey in the court ,” Katherine Maher, executive director of the foundation, told reporters in a telephone briefing, a decision that she said was “not made lightly”. The issue began over two English-language pages on state-sponsored terrorism and the Syrian civil war that Ankara believes falsely linked it to terrorist activities.
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