Saturday, March 22, 2014

NATO MEMBER TURKEY IS VIOLATING THE NATO CHARTER?

Turkey tried to block Twitter but citizens found a workaround and Turkey responded by strengthening its censorship of the Internet:
Turkey Blocks Google DNS as Erdogan Defends Twitter Action (1)
By Selcan Hacaoglu and Onur Ant March 22, 2014
BLOOMBERG

Turkey blocked a Google Inc. (GOOG:US) service used by Turks to circumvent a ban on Twitter Inc., the Hurriyet and Haberturk newspapers said, as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government defended the social media clampdown.

The government prevented access to Google DNS today, the newspapers reported. To use Twitter, Turks had turned to DNS, which was created in the 1980s to help computers find websites using words instead of numbers. Calls to Erdogan’s office and the country’s telecommunications watchdog went unanswered today.

This is the section of Nato's Charter that Turkey seems to violate:
Article 2

The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being. They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.

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