In video war between Turkey and Greece, Turkish court bans YouTube for Ataturk insult

PARIS -- A court in Turkey on Wednesday ordered blockage of all access to YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site, over a video deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

The ban followed a week of what the media in Turkey dubbed a "virtual war" of videos between Greeks and Turks on YouTube and came as governments around the world —- including France — grappled with the freewheeling content now readily posted on the Internet.

The ban also coincides with a Turkish struggle to prove its human rights credentials to the European Union.