Hi, one of my friends in Turkey asked my advice regarding the setup of a critical blog.
At the current moment they are publishing a very plain and simple magazine anonymously (using nicknames) every 14 days with a circulation of circa 3000 pieces.
Now they want to go a step further with internet publishing. They are no extremists or radicals but well educated students with a strong sense for serious democracy.
Unfortunately Turkey censorships everywhere. Internet, TV, Radio, Newspapers, Books, Arts and Cinema and so on.
The Reporters without Borders put Turkey to the 154th place out of 179 regarding the press freedom. More than 60 known journalist are imprisoned at the moment or killed (like Hrant Dink).
Last month they put up new laws for the internet censhorship, my friend told me. Now they are able to filter every webpage without court order. Now they have the right to log and spy on nearly everything, internet users are not safe.
The questions: 1) Which country is best for press freedom and would refuse to give names because of serious journalistic work? VPS should be located there, if possible not to far away from Turkey or with good routing.
2) How does Turkey technically filter? Is there a possible way to keep the blog alive and unblocked for turkish readers? Political magazines, filehoster like 2shared, porn, vimeo and much more are blocked. Even youtube was blocked for a certain time.
Thank you for your help!
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