ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey said Saturday that it was lifting a ban on YouTube more than two years after it blocked access to the site because of videos deemed insulting to the country's founder.
Transport Minister Binali Yildirim, who is in charge of Internet issues, said the government has been in touch with Google, which owns YouTube. There was no longer any reason to ban the video-sharing site, he said, as the offending videos had been removed.
"In the end, common sense prevailed. The reasons for the YouTube ban do not exist anymore," Yildirim said. "In the end,
"The ban has been removed," Yildirim said on NTV television. "But we didn't get here easily, we have been …
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