12 years ago
Sat Jul 6, 2013 12:49am PST
Facebook suspended a prominent citizen journalist community page in Turkey
Recently (just past midnight (EEST) on July 6) a community page on Facebook belonging to "Ötekilerin Postası" https://facebook.com/OtekilerinPostasi was suspended. The reason given according to their tweet https://twitter.com/RadikalAktivist/status/353264179123200000 was "content including nudity, pornography or sexual solicitation" (my translation).

This community was founded to act as citizen journalists and did so superbly. In particular, this Facebook page was extremely useful for disseminating information during the events that unfolded in Turkey over the past month or so. The events that developed around Gezi Park protests are not over (e.g. there were multiple detentions today, the construction of the underway passage in Taksim Square is being continued despite a court order for stopping it, a demonstration is planned on Saturday at Gezi Park etc.), so this suspension will cut off a very valuable news source for many people. Does anyone here know how to go about to reinstate this page?

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