European parliamentarians urge Turkey to remove YouTube ban

A delegation from the European Parliament urged Turkish officials to make the necessary legal arrangements to enhance freedom of expression and eventually lift the ban on access to YouTube.
"Banning YouTube, Google's blogging site, the websites of a teachers' trade union, Richard Dawkins and even a Turkish dictionary stands alongside more than 40 cases against writers and journalists even since the reform of the so-called anti-Turkishness article of the penal code," Richard Howitt, the vice president of the European Parliament's Human Rights Sub-Committee, said in a written statement on Friday.
The British Euro MP called for the ban to be overturned at a meeting with Turkish Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin in
Howitt criticized the ban, saying that around 1,000 websites are blocked in
As a modern country looking forward to European Union membership,
"Whilst honoring
Access to the world's largest video-sharing site, YouTube, has been blocked from
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