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Censorship at 34th IKSV Istanbul Film Festival 12.04.15
The turkish government censored a documentary about kurdish guerilla PKK. The film title is "Bakur"(Director: ayan Demirel and Erturul Maviolu) which is the kurdish word for "North"....
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Numerous filmmakers have withdrawn their films from the Istanbul Film Festival due to a deepening disagreement regarding government censorship.
The government is accused of forcing the festival organizers to withdraw a Kurdish documentary. The controversy has resulted in all festival competitions being cancelled. At a time of peace efforts between the government and the Kurdish rebel group the PKK, the documentary Bakir was widely seen as one of the most anticipated films of the Istanbul film festival, with its rare access to PKK bases in Turkey.
But just hours before its screening, festival organizers received a letter from the Ministry of Culture warning them all documentaries made in Turkey need a screening certificate issued by the ministry. Festival director Azize Tan said they had no option but to withdraw the film. Tan says it has been more than a decade since the ministry had enforced the regulation and only five documentaries of the 33 to be screened did not have the required certificate. The regulation only applies to Turkish films, and critics warn that enforcing the regulation gives the government the right to veto the screening of any film.
While the ministry did not name Bakir specifically, the timing of its intervention leaves most festival goers in little doubt the move was censorship. In an open letter to the media, more than 100 filmmakers, including recent Cannes Palm D'Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan, condemned the move. Many withdrew their films from the festival, and in protest to the government restricitons, the festival canceled all competitions.
Festival director Tan said the film industry has to unite to challenge the legal restrictions.
"I think we have to come together in solidarity, the whole film sector, all the associations, everybody involved in the film sector. We have to fight to change the existing laws [that] make life impossible for all of us," Tan said. The growing groundswell is welcomed by Ertugrul Mavioglu who, along with co-director Cayan Demirel, made Bakir. Mavioglu says he his not surprised that his film was not screened. "The state always has these unknown regulations or regulations that are never used to censor subjects that for them are forbidden," Mavioglu said, adding that he is not surprised this happened and has seen it before. Founded in 1981, the Istanbul Film Festival's goal was to give people a window to the outside world when the country was in the iron grip of its military rulers. It was at the forefront of successfully challenging censorship, which was instrumental in the lifting many restrictions across the film industry.
Veteran film critic Atilla Dorsay worked closely with the festival in its early days. He said the return of censorship, while deeply disturbing, is not surprising in the current political climate. "We used to have censorship, but gradually it disappeared. As far as the festival's films are concerned, we really considered this problem was solved for good," he said.
"But seeing the general situation in the political area, which means more and more censorship, on journalism, on media, on everything, it was very much expected in the matters of cinema and festivals," Dorsay said.
Ankara is already facing growing national and international criticism over freedom of expression and this latest controversy, observers warn, is likely to add to those concerns.
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The ongoing denial-of-service attack against code-sharing site GitHub marks an escalation in Chinas cyber censorship battle, security experts warn, urging a strong response from the U.S. government.
San Francisco-based GitHub has not said who it believes is behind the attack, which started last month, although the finger of suspicion has been pointed firmly in the direction of China. Anti-online censorship group Greatfire.org says that Chinese authorities took over computers both inside and outside the country to launch cyberattacks against the Greatfire.org website and GitHub, which hosts some of the group's data.
The attack, which was the largest in GitHubs history, began March 26, causing intermittent shutdowns of the code sharing forum. The shadowy attackers used the web browsers of unsuspecting, uninvolved people" to flood github.com with high levels of traffic, according to GitHub. On March 31, after days of battling the attack, GitHub reported that that its service was operating normally.
I believe that its likely that it is the government of China behind this, Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at software security specialist F-Secure told FoxNews.com. The reason why the attack is still ongoing is because their target is to cause pain for GitHub.
Its a tremendous escalation of nation state enforcement of their policy of banning what people can get access to, added Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst at IT-Harvest. China probably thinks of the U.S.s Internet infrastructure as the wild wild west, where everybody does what they want this could be bad, if the government doesnt respond, there will be more attacks.
Security expert Robert Graham traced a machine used in the GitHub attack to a location on or near the so-called Great Firewall of China -- the technology infrastructure for Internet censorship in China. This is important evidence for our government, he wrote, in a blog post. It'll be interesting to see how they respond to these attacks - attacks by a nation state against key United States Internet infrastructure.
The long-running nature of the digital assault also underlines the threat posed by shadowy attackers. A person with knowledge of the issue told FoxNews.com Monday that the attack is ongoing, but has decreased in intensity. GitHub, the person added, is mitigating the attack well and is fully operational.
F-Secures Hypponen told FoxNews.com that GitHub poses a unique challenge for China. With every single GitHub page encrypted, The Great Firewall of China is unable to block individual pages on the site. They would have to block everything, and that will not happen because a lot of Chinese companies are using GitHub, he said. The only option that China has is to bully GitHub.
Greatfire.org said it had mirrored some of its content on GitHub repositories, and that the data were the targets of the attacks.
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