[2677] Constitution Republic of Turkey, available at http://www.mfa.gov.tr/GRUPI/Anayasa/i142.htm.
[2678] Id. at Art. 20.
[2679] Id.
[2680] Nick Thorpe, "Mixed Reactions to Turkey's Reforms," BBC News, October 5, 2001 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1580000/1580238.stm.
[2681] US Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001, March 4, 2002, available at http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001.
[2682] Turkish Republic Foreign Trade Office, E-Commerce Laws Working Party Report, 8 May 1998. A summary of the report in Turkish is available at http://kurul.ubak.gov.tr/e-ticaret.html.
[2683] Turkish Criminal Code, Amendment No. 3756 (June 14, 1991) cited in National Report: Turkey at the Council of Europe Conference on Cybercrime, Ministry of Justice (November 22, 2001), available at http://www.legal.coe.int/economiccrime.
[2684] "Acting Security Director Confirms All Telephones Bugged," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, April 14, 1997 and "No Privacy on the Phone Lines," Asia Times, April 16, 1997 at 8.
[2685] "Turk Policeman Convicted in Phone Tapping Scandal," Reuters, December 6, 1999.
[2686] "Comedy of phone bugging," Milliyet, March 16, 2000.
[2687] Hurriyet, March 13, 2000.
[2688] "Istanbul Police Chief Denies Ordering Governor's Phone Tapped," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, April 22, 2001.
[2689] "Turkish Foreign Ministry Investigates Wiretapping Allegations," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, May 3, 2001.
[2690] "Turkish Speaker Concerned Over Tapping Of Phones Without Court Order," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, May 10, 2001.
[2691] "Interior Ministry Denies Illegal Wiretapping,' BBC Worldwide Monitoring," May 4, 2001.
[2692] "Body Probing Phone Tapping To Be Set Up," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, June 15, 2001.
[2693] "Parliamentary Report Reveals Illegal Wiretapping by Mafia, GSM Operators," Istanbul Hurriyet, May 24, 2002 (FBIS Translated Text).
[2694] "Fogg Email Scandal Said Attempt to Discredit Pro-EU Circles at Home," Istanbul Milliyet, February 12, 2002 (FBIS Translated Text).
[2695] "Turkish Hackers Begin to Challenge Brazilians to Claim Top Spot," Mena Report Reporters, June 2, 2003.
[2696] "Turkey Debates Cyberspace Controls," by Elif Unal, Reuters, April 16,
[2697] See Commission On Human Rights, Question of the Human Rights of All Persons Subjected to any Form of Detention or Imprisonment: Promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, report of the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Abid Hussain, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1996/53 Addendum Mission to Turkey, available at http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu4/chrrep/3197a1.htm, Distr. General E/CN.4/1997/31/Add.1 11 February 1997.
[2698] Akdivar and others v Turkey,1 Eur. Ct. H.R. 137 (1996).
[2699] Orhan v. Turkey, App. No. 25656/94, Eur. Ct. H.R. (June 18, 2002).
[2700] "Interior Minister Issues Circular Warning of Human Rights Violations," BBC Worldwide Monitoring, July 25, 2001.
[2701] "Draft E-Signature Law to Be Issued," BNA World Data Protection Report vol. 3 (January 2003).
[2702] Id.
[2703] Id.
[2704] See "Human Rights in Turkey: V. Turkey's Place and Role in the International Context," Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, available at http://www.mfa.gov.tr/GRUPF/hrtur.htm.
[2705] Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (ETS No. 108), available at http://conventions.coe.int/.
[2706] Signed 04/11/50, ratified 18/05/54, entered into force May 18, 1854, available at http://conventions.coe.int/.