Here is a funny caricature from Turkish humor magazine Penguen  mocking government efforts to block Internet access:

From now on Google searches will be done by submitting paper forms to a government office

Lol! This is really funny!! In a very tragic way though...  I really hope it doesn´t come to that.

Wow, this is a shame. The ban on YouTube was old news; as inconvenient as it was, I was able to get used to it. I agree that the ban on the translation services is also not a huge deal as they´re not that good anyway. But I use the google documents service all the time - it´s very useful, and I don´t understand the danger behind allowing access to it!  

Doesn´t matter if there are ways around the bans or not, this says a lot about Turkey.

It does not actually say "access to this site has been banned according to court decision". When you hit translate button, you just hang there waiting for something to come up. I didn´t wait till something comes up. Seems like Türk Telekom have messed up something.

Phewww!.... Such a relief, eh?

Turkey’s communications minister called on Google Inc. to register as a taxpayer in the country, a step he said would help accelerate the lifting of a ban on the company’s Youtube video-sharing website.

“The company should open a representative office,” Transport and Communications Minister Binali Yıldırım said in Ankara today. “Youtube is a tax-payer in 20 countries and we want them to do the same in Turkey.”
Turkey’s Finance Ministry has given Google a tax demand of 30 million liras ($18.6 million), Yıldırım said today.

Youtube has been banned in Turkey since 2008 when a court ruled that a video on the site had insulted national founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Quoted from: here

...right...does this mean that TLC has to pay tax in Holland too, since I´m reading this site from Holland now?

(okay, so probably TLC is not a for-profit website, I don´t know actually, but humor me )

So it turns out, the ban has nothing to do with protecting fragile Turkish minds from unfavourable Ataturk films, but it´s all about alışverış Money talks (and googles haha)

That is exactly what it is really..

I believe,  people who can still think ´Ataturk should be protected by bans or laws´ in this era, CAN turn around and say ´ah but if they pay money, it is something else´ and dont feel any ambarresment at all..

Wrong conclusion. That doesn´t mean they would not be punished. If they register as a tax-payer then they would be fined in that case instead of banning only.