Turkey has moved to block several Facebook pages
considered insulting to the Prophet Mohammed. A Turkish court ordered Facebook
to close the offending pages in a ruling handed down Sunday, threatening
to block access to the social network if it doesn't comply.
The ruling comes amid heightened tensions in the
Middle East over this month's attacks on the offices of French satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo, which appears to have been motivated, in part,
by the publication's depictions of the Prophet Mohammed.
One week after the attacks, Charlie Hebdo
once again featured the prophet on its cover, sparking protests across the
Muslim world. In response, a Turkish court ordered all news sites publishing
the cover to be blocked, while authorities launched an inquiry into a newspaper
that published four pages of the issue as a show of solidarity.
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