A Turkish legislator is demanding an investigation into why the website of at least one Turkish church was labelled pornography and blocked from computers at Turkey’s Grand National Assembly (TBMM) on May 28.
While doing research for a trip to Diyarbakir, Aykan Erdemir, a legislator from Bursa with the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), discovered that the website for Diyarbakir Church could not be accessed by members of the TBMM (or parliament).
‘I realised it was blocked, and there was an interface screen that said the reason why it was blocked was pornography’, said Erdemir, who sits on the Committee on Inspection of Human Rights. ‘It’s not an acceptable thing to find out this has been going on.’
