An official of a 56-nation security and human rights organization says Turkey should abolish or reform a law allowing it to block around 3,700 internet sites.
Miklos Haraszti of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, says web sites inaccessible in Turkey include YouTube, GeoCities and some Google pages.
He says some decisions on what to block have been "arbitrary and political."
Haraszti is the organization's representative on media freedom. He says in a statement released Monday that while Turkey's barring access to child pornography sites was understandable, its Internet law "not only limits freedom of expression, but severely restricts citizens' right to access information."
AP