On Saturday, January 18, 2014, the Turkish police violently dispersed, using rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons, hundreds of people in Istanbul who were protesting the upcoming extension of his control Internet in Turkey.
Police epainefei dynamically when protesters threw Molotov cocktails to the police.
Police dispersed groups of protesters who had gathered in the city's central square, now known as Taksim, and along a main road to denounce the bill that would allow Turkey's telecommunications authority to block websites or remove content accused of violating privacy without a court order, and will also require providers to keep internet users' data for two years.
Critics say it will extend the already tight government legislation on the Internet. The government rejects the accusations of censorship, saying the move is aimed at protecting privacy.
The move comes as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government is in the midst of a corruption investigation involving people close to the prime minister, perhaps the worst crisis it has faced in its 11-year rule. duration in charge.
New Internet checks are being enforced because of police documents and photographs that have to do with corruption and have leaked over the Internet.
During Saturday's protest, protesters chanted slogans calling on the government to resign and held up signs reading "Do not touch my Internet."
Hundreds of people supported a similar protest in the capital, Ankara, but no violence was reported.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Turkey's existing Internet regulation is against freedom of expression. About 40.000 websites - many of them pornographic - have been blocked in Turkey, according to Engelli Web (a site that monitors banned websites).
