Turkey tries to ban YouTube after Syria leak – will it work?

Turkey's attempt to stop people using video-sharing website YouTube are doomed to fail, analysts say

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THE Turkish government has imposed a ban on YouTube a week after it tried to block the social networking site Twitter. But analysts say that the blackout is unlikely to be effective.

The block was ordered after an audio recording of a high-level security meeting was reportedly leaked on the video-sharing site. According to reports in the Turkish media, the ban was imposed by Turkey's telecommunications authority (TİB) as a "precautionary administrative measure".

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