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Friendly gesture to Russia? Ankara lifts ban on Sputnik Turkey

Sputnik
Mon, 08 Aug 2016 12:00 UTC

Turkey's Department of Telecommunications and Communication (TIB) lifted the ban on Sputnik website, according to the head of Sputnik Turkey.

"Our website is unblocked in Turkey. Starting 10 a.m. Moscow time we began to receive messages from users that the website is accessible again. We started checking this information and it is actually working," Mahir Boztepe said.

The website of Sputnik's Turkish bureau was blocked on April 14 by the Turkish telecommunications regulator. Turkey's Golbasi District court backed the decision. The former chief editor of Sputnik's Turkish bureau, Tural Kerimov, was denied entry to Turkey, stripped of his accreditation and residence permit in the country.

Reader Comments

forestkitty · 2016-08-08T14:18:15Z

way to show the world the manner of your intentions. i was not really sure. now if we can just get japan to join. what a world that would be. bi-polar, perhaps, but still with hope of coming together in a more sensible fashion.