Turkish court ruling bans access to Google Groups. Nice to know they are applying for membership in EU. Actions like this really makes the Turkish government look like they embrace openness and democratic principles.

Not to mention their repeated block of YouTube because a video offending Ataturk was on YouTube.

Assuming the block is because someone mentioned Ataturk on Google Groups in less glorifying terms, doing a search for the query Ataturk reveals, that these postings are not posted to groups only accessible through Google Groups, but rather on Usenet. Blocking that content will be pretty tough for the Turkish government, unless they block access to the internet completely.

I think this qualifies as a fail, on all counts.