[escepticos] Turkey bans RichardDawkins.net

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*Turkey bans biologist Richard Dawkins' website 
<http://richarddawkins.net/article,3128,Turkey-bans-biologist-Richard-Dawkins-website,Monsters-and-Critics>* 


Reposted from: 
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/science/news/article_1431422.php/Turkey_bans_biologist_Richard_Dawkins_website 


Ankara - Turkish internet users have been blocked via a court order from 
accessing the site of prominent British biologist Richard Dawkins after 
complaints from lawyers for Islamic creationist author Adnan Oktar, the 
website of Turkish television station NTV reported on Wednesday.

A court in Istanbul ordered that Turk Telekom block access to the site 
and since the weekend Turkish internet users seeking the site have been 
redirected to a page that says in Turkish 'access to this site has been 
suspended in accordance with a court decision'.

NTV reported that Oktar complained he and his creationist book 'Atlas of 
Creation' had been defamed by comments made by Dawkins on the site.

'I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values 
of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content,' Dawkins, a 
distinguished advocate of the theory of evolution, wrote on his website 
in July referring to the Atlas of Creation.

The book has caused controversy not just through its advocation of 
creationism but also through how thousands of copies of book were 
distributed to schools in a number of European countries.

Oktar has used the Turkish courts on a number of occasions, the latest 
being earlier this year when he attempted to have Dawkins' book /The God 
Delusion/ banned in Turkey on the basis that it was insulting religion 
but a Turkish court threw the case out.

In August 2007, Oktar, who writes under the pen name Harun Yahya, 
convinced a Turkish court to block access to millions of web blogs using 
the Wordpress.com hosting service after finding that a number of blogs 
carried libellous comments.

In May, Oktar was found guilty of creating an illegal organization for 
personal gain and sentenced to three years imprisonment. He is appealing 
the decision.

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