nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200120-172218-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200120s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200120-172218-0 doi eng 342 23 Tecimer, Cem Author aut Why the Turkish Constitutional Court’s Wikipedia Decision is No Reason to Celebrate Tecimer, Cem Verfassungsblog 2020-01-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC) recently lifted the ban on Wikipedia and a surge of, in my view, unwarranted optimism has now sprung out of nowhere both among international and Turkish circles following the case closely. I fail to share this optimism. By all means, the lifting of the ban on Wikipedia is something to be happy about. But the timing and content of the TCC’s decision, when especially read through the political context in which it was handed down, do not give much reason to celebrate. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 European Court of Human Rights Freedom of Speech Turkish Constitutional Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/why-the-turkish-constitutional-courts-wikipedia-decision-is-no-reason-to-celebrate/ raw object