A Turkish court has ruled that Facebook pages that appear to insult the Prophet Muhammed be blocked. The court threatened to block the social media giant entirely if the pages are not taken down.
The order, announced by the state-run Anadolu Agency, was given by the Golbasi Duty magistrates court in Ankara on the request of a prosecutor. Facebook has blocked one page so far in response to “valid legal request” from Turkish authorities, according to Reuters.
Tensions over the depiction of the Prophet have flared in the Middle East after satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo published a cartoon of Mohammed on its cover in response to an attack on its offices which left 10 staff and two police officers dead.
