Lots of people, including us, are confused and indignant about this
wholesale censorship. Last night we received a letter from the person
claiming to be responsible for the block, which in the interest of the
community I’m going to publish in its entirety here:
Dear Sir,
We have applied to you to remove the unlawful statements regarding
my client Mr. Adnan Oktar (who is the author of the books written under
the pen name Harun Yahya) in your blogs. The number of our attempts to
inform and warn you regarding these defamation blogs must have been at
least twenty, many times through your support page, a couple of times
to your legal department and we even sent a regular mail to Mr. Matt
Mullenweg. Most of our attempts were unanswered.
These defamation blogs contained slanders to some of my client’s
friends as well. They also applied Wordpress.com support with their
official ID cards and a representative directed them to write to the
legal department. So they did but again no response from legal.
So we have become obliged to apply to Turkish judicial courts to
stop this defamation executed through your services. By the decision of
Fatih 2nd Civil Court of First Instance, number 2007/195, access to
Wordpress.com has been blocked in Turkey.
The organization, which is led by Edip Yuksel, responsible for these
defamation blogs in question are currently up for crimes such as
“building an organization to commit crime” in Turkey. The sites of Edip
Yuksel, www.yahyaharun.com, www.19.org, www.calinmisgenclik.com and
also the blog under your site with the user name
http://adnanoktar.wordpress.com have been blocked by Turkish judicial
courts in Turkey before(by Gaziosmanpasa Civil Court of First Instance,
dated 06.04.2007 and decision number 2007/130 D. Is) . We have also
sent you the official documents on this judicial decision in one of our
applications to you.
Since Edip Yuksel and his crime organization could easily start new
blogs in your site, they had even launched a campaign in opening
defamation blogs regarding my client and had explicitly expressed this
organized endeavor in his defamation blogs:
“In order to make people hear our voice, let everyone start new
blogs from websites such as http://blogcu.com or http://wordpress.com
and let them copy the posts on those blogs and paste them to their own.
You can start several at once, if possible. Please remember that the
name you will give to the blogs, should be related to Adnan Oktar or
Harun Yahya in order to find them quickly through Google search. If the
names are already taken, you can solve this problem by using characters
such as “_” (Adnan_Oktar) or numbers such as AdnanOktar100,
Adnan_Oktar_50.”
The aim of all of these blogs that he and his organization starts,
was to insult my client. All of them were completely full of slanderous
statements. There are still some sites left open -not accessible from
Turkey, but still accessible abroad - :
http://adnanoktar.wordpress.com
http://adnanoktarveislam.wordpress.com/
http://fitikado.wordpress.com
http://oktarbabuna.wordpress.com
http://adnancilar.wordpress.com/
http://adnanoktarveislam.wordpress.com/
http://whoisharunyahya.wordpress.com/
http://adnanoktargercekleri.wordpress.com/
http://quiestharunyahya.wordpress.com/
http://harunyahyaarabic.wordpress.com/
http://safsataciharunyahya.wordpress.com/
http://savsatalaracevap.wordpress.com/
The below are taken but still empty:
http://adnanzedeler.wordpress.com/
http://kodadiabi.wordpress.com/
As we have requested before:
WE DEMAND YOU TO REMOVE AND PROHIBIT ANY BLOGS IN YOUR SITE THAT
CONTAIN MY CLIENT’S NAME ADNAN OKTAR OR HIS PEN NAME HARUN YAHYA OR
VARIOUS COMBINATION OF THESE 4 NAMES.
Yours sincerely,
Attorneys of Mr. Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
Atty. Kerim Kalkan / Atty. Ceyhun Gökdoğan (Istanbul Barr register number:
27405)
Address: Darulaceze caddesi, Bilal Is Merkezi, A Blok, D:5. Okmeydani Sisli
Istanbul
Telephone: 90 212 220 31 20
Fax: 90 212 220 74 21
E-mail: rotahukuk@rotahukuk.com
ceyhungokdogan@istanbulbarosu.org.tr