It´s a good excuse for Türk Telekom to save some bandwidth by banning U-tube. Personally I don´t use u-tube so that´s not a problem for myself but I don´t understand why google translate service is banned.

Oh, that stinks. I have to agree that Google translate isn´t the best translator out there, but it´s an easy tool that I use almost daily!

I think the translation forum is going to get very busy!

It´s ridiculous to ban sites because of politics. Especially that I´m sure there are ways to find a way around it...

There are ways round youtube so there must be ways round this....

Is it ok if I post a way to connect the banned websites?  Or is it not allowed on this forum?=)

I guess it is. In the past people told how to use YouTube through a bypass. I don´t see a problem.

I think that bypass is the same way I was gonna offer.  But changing the DNS settings seems to work for me..

Instructions in

English:

for XP

http://www.mediacollege.com/computer/network/dns.html
(use the first one)

or this

http://www.plus.net/support/software/dns/changing_dns_xp.shtml

for vista

almost the same as xp, but here it is

http://www.plus.net/support/software/dns/changing_dns_vista.shtml

for preferred DNS addresses you may use

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

or the one I´m using is

202.27.184.3

202.27.184.5

try doing it, click ok and restart your browser.  Works fine with my computer=)

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