ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
The Turkish government has announced that it will monitor the Internet around the clock to prevent any further online releases of sex tapes featuring politicians ahead of the June 12 general election.
The Prime Ministry’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority, or BTK, made its announcement amid a furor over ongoing waves of tape scandals that have snared members of the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP.
The BTK said its new 24-hour system would monitor the web continuously in order to prevent additional privacy-invading images from reaching the homes of Turkish people. By operating around the clock, the BTK aims to catch the illegal surveillance of politicians early on and immediately take the necessary legal steps to have access to such footage blocked.
The BTK’s administrative, technical and legal units will all be involved in the operation.
Sex tapes have already hit two of the country’s main opposition parties, forcing former Republican People’s Party, or CHP, leader Deniz Baykal and various senior members of the MHP to resign.
via Web to be watched 24/7 in Turkey to prevent more sex tape scandals – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review.
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