The 22.5 million Turkish members of Facebook may lose access to the popular social-networking site as a result of a court case filed by an opposition leader. Though Kemal Kiliçdaroglu  (leader of CHP) and his party say they only want offensive content removed, a government minister has hinted Facebook may follow YouTube onto the banned-sites list .

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http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=facebook-should-appeal-in-court-minister-says-2010-10-07

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I saw in the other sources that "allegedly  CHP and AKP agreed on this ban". 

What can I say: Yes..do it.. So that our place can be secured next to countries  like  China, Iran which try to censure the content of internet. 

It should have been done by now according to the current law (5651).

Who is behind most of the bans is also a subject of debate. People sympathetic to the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, generally blame the CHP and nongovernmental organizations such as the Kemalist Thought Association or ADD, since most complaints come from them or their supporters. The opposition, on the other hand, puts the blame with the AKP since Law No. 5651 on Internet bans was enacted during its time in power and because the ruling party is the one with the numbers in Parliament to potentially change it.

They can make their own "facebook" like they made izlesene.com as youtube.com

I dont think it will be the same

Normally, there would be a Turkish version of those websites or web ideas  but I am not sure if there is one for  facebook.. May be I should write it..

 Of course you can! You dont need originality for this.

If I believe, only 10% of 22.5 million users will use it, I will be quite happy to do the effort of writing it.. But I dont think it can be the same..

But we  can find a  name for that website :

face=yuz, book=kitap

yuzkitap.com 

İt´ s already changed to feysbuk 

Are you sure facebook = yüzkitap? I have always suspected if Turkish is your native language.

You never fail to miss the jokes and the points..will you?

"feys" is more preferable I think: feysime girdim, feysine koymuş, feysini seveyim v.s 

he he. is this supposed to be something funny? I don´t subscribe to  this kind of sense of humour.

That´s improbable, is it? I mean it would be one step closer to creating your own Internet, like China did (it did it, didn´t it?).

The good thing would be me not getting invited from Turks I don´t know

I hope Ankara will be more sensible than with YouTube, FB is often the only way for me to keep in touch with my Turkish friends now that I have just a few minutes of my Internet time and I uninstalled MSN

I think it´s ridiculous, you can´t just delete sites that have vulgar/violent/bad etc content because they don´t think it´s right... Well they can but like I said, I think it´s ridiculous. It´s basically telling what people can and cannot do and it´s gone past the line of creating a "law" that is effective. Not to mention, it´s like they are unaware how many sites contain bad content in them.... If that´s the case then they´ll never acomplish what they´ve started. There are millions of sites created all the time. For example, as far as I remember, there is bebo.com, myspace.com, facebook.com, worldsbiggestchat.com, yahoo.com - and that is just the few off the top of my head.

In the end of the day, all social networking sites are going to have something bad about them. As the saying goes "nothing is perfect".

I remember being in a cafe in Fethiye talking to a english friend of mine on msn and she wanted to show me a video on youtube that she had uploaded but was unable to view it due to the ban  

Our goverment fails from IT freedom!

I dont use facebook but millions of others do. Even the number of users doesn´t matter. Anyone, who resists on developing technology, unables to retort it!

I hope they dont make the mistake of closing facebook.