Two judges who approved the decision to close the Ekşisözlük internet dictionary site but later reversed this decision upon the objection of lawyers are dismissed from their posts.
The access ban imposed on ekşisözlük at the request of the Information and Communication Technologies Board (BTK) caused the displacement of two judges at the Ankara Courthouse.
According to T24’s report, Ankara 4th Circuit first approved the decision to close the popular dictionary site ekşisözlük’s access to the internet but later reversed this decision upon the site lawyers’ objection. Criminal Justice of the Peace Mustafa Yılmaz was removed from this position and transferred to Ankara’s 31. Circuit.
Ankara 5. Criminal Magistrate Yusuf Efe was also removed from his position and was appointed as a judge of the Criminal Court. It was learned that Efe was dismissed from this position because he had left for vacation without considering the objection made by the government’s Information and Communication Technologies Board (BTK) to the lifting of the access ban.
Ekşisözlük, which has more than 400 thousand members, was closed to access by the government’s BTK department last February, and this decision of BTK was later accepted as valid by Ankara 4th Criminal Magistrate’s Office court. Upon the appeal of this decision by the lawyers of Ekşisözlük, the same judge who decided on closure reversed his previous decision and lifted the access ban. However, this time, BTK appealed the decision to lift the access ban, and the appeal was filed in Ankara 5th Circuit and was accepted by the Criminal Justice of the Peace.
Source: T24
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