ITU
High-Level Segment (HLS)
of Council 2008
Geneva, 12-13 November 2008
Binali YILDIRIM
Minister of Transport and
Communications
Republic of TURKEY
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Development of ICT
Market
70,0
60,0
million
50,0
40,0
30,0
20,0
10,0
0,0
2002
2003
2004
Fixed Subscribers
Broadband Subscribers
(million)
Mobile Subscribers
Internet Users
Broadband Subscribers
PCs
2005
2006
MobileYEARS
Subscribers
Personal Computers
2002
2007
Internet Users
2008
Penetration(%)
2008
2008
GROWTH
rate (%)
23,0
65,0
92
183
4,3
26,5
37
516
0,005
6,0
8,5
119900
10,0
14
233
3,0
2
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Development of ICT
Market
 ICT Market is US$ 31 billion (2008),
IT (2008 exp.): US$ 8 billion
ICT Market (Billion US$)
Comm.Tech.(2008 exp): US$ 23 billion.
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 ICT Market was US$ 20.951 billion (2006), US$ 24
billion (2007)
 The growth in ICTs is assumed to be 20% in 2008
compared to 2007.
 Turkey’s software market increased up to US$ 1
billion in 2007 compared to US$ 880 million in 2006.
30 TV channels at the national level, 250 at the
local level
260 Licences in ICT sector,
31,0
30
25
21,0
20
15
15
11
10
5
0
22 Turkish companies in the global list of 500
fastest growing ICT companies
2002
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2004
YEARS
2006
2008
Some activities realized in
Turkey
LAW NO
GSM900
GSM1800 4502, LICENCES
ISP,
LICENCES
IN FORCE
RIGTH TOSATELLITE,
APR-98
GMPCS
TÜRKINFORMATION
JAN-2000
OCT-2000
LAW LICENCES
TELEKOM
MARCH-2002
LONG MONOPOLY
OCT-2003
DISTANCE ENDED,
E-SIGN.LAW
TELEPHONE
SERVICE’S JAN-2004
LICENCES
MAY-2004
UNIVERSAL
SERVICE’S
LAW,
LOCAL LOOP
IN FORCE
UNBUNDLING
LAW ON
JUNE-2005
COMMUNIQUE,
PRIVATIZATIONINFRASTR. NUMBER REGULATION OFRESEARCH
IN FORCE, OF TÜRK PROVIDER’S
PORTABILITY PUBLICATION
AND
FIGTHING AGAINSTDEVELOP.
JULY-2005 TELEKOM LICENCES ORDINANCE,
NOV-2005 MARCH-2006
IN FORCECRIME COMMITTED
FEB-2007
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VIA INTERNET
MAY-2007
(R&D) LAW
APR-2008
IT Crimes – Internet
 Computer and IT systems despite all their
benefits to society help criminals to commit
more sophisticated crimes.
 Crimes take place crossborders.
 The technology edge contributes to the
cyber wars globally.
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Fighting with IT
Crimes

The methods used in fighting classical crimes become
ineffective when used to fight against IT crimes.

To fight against IT crimes; new legislation arrangement has
to be made; furnishing technical substructure, qualified
personnel and extensive training are needed.

To trace and collect evidence in IT crimes gets difficult.
They are intentionally erased, lost or destroyed by criminals.

New methods and strategies next to classical methods are
needed.

Law enforcement and juristicion need to be equipped with
new technologies and their personnel trained about all new
crime types.
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Public Awareness
 Public awareness is important to keep track of new IT
crimes. What “you don’t know” can hurt you.
 IT crimes uprise in the societies with lack of security
awareness. It is even problem for countries taken
precautions.
 To increase awareness, international cooperation
events, studies, conferanses, publications need to
emphasised.
 Our New website http://www.guvenliweb.org.tr
describes the internet security.
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Internet Content
Regulation
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Daily visits to Secure Internet Website are
around 50.000.
-
Website’s internet usage ranking, according to
FOSI (Family Online Safety Organization –
http://www.fosi.org) is higher than other
websites with similar content (clicksafe.de,
childnet.int.org,
iwf.co.uk,
netzsmartz.org,
saferinternet.org, cybermartkids.com.au)
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Internet Content
Regulation

IT crimes are committed on Internet.

Illegal contents are increasing on internet portals.

Based on the report, published on January 2008 by BMI
called “ IBM Internet Security 2007 Trend Statistics”; %8 of
internet in the world contains unwanted contents.

The unwanted contents in 3 category :



Adult contents ( %7,4) ( Pornography, erotic)
Social Extreme content ( %0,003) ( Extreme fanatism /
Racism)
Criminal Offense Content ( Criminal) ( %0,23) ( IT Crimes,
harmful softwares, Violance, illegal softwares ext.)
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Internet Content
Regulation
 Unwanted contents like adult contents are usually
produced by developed countries.
 Turkey’s undesirable content production level is
less than %0,9.
 To fight against unwanted content and siber threats need
more emphesis.
 We also comply with the advices of Council of
Europe in internet regulation and safer internet media,
called Safer Internet Action Plan – SIAP.
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Internet Content
Regulation
 Council’s request to build internet hotlines, develop
internet filtering - rating systems and increase
awareness is followed closely.
 Turkey implemented these actions even before Council
of Europe’s recommandations.
 The Law number 5651 “ To arrange the publications in
internet media and fighting the crimes that are
committed using these publications” took effect on
23.May.2007.
 Legal infrastructure in fighting with some crimes,
committed on internet was developed with this law.
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Law No:5651
 With this law in effect; rules for content,
location, access and usage providers, and their
responsibility and obligations are arranged in
order to fight against internet crimes.
 Content providers are responsible for all their
content. Similar enforcements are in effect in
Germany, France, Italy and USA.
 Important to protect social and community
values. To prevent youth and children from
reaching harmful content such as pornography.
To prevent adults reaching child pornography.
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Law No:5651

The catagory of crimes, listed as;








Provocation to commit suicide
Sexual harassment of children
To ease the usage of drugs
Supplying drugs which are dangerous for health
Obscenity
Prostitution
To provide place and opportunity for gambling
Crimes committed against our founder of the
republic, “Atatürk”.
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Internet Hotline
 Notices via web form, email or
telephone to Internet hotlines get
evaluate; if determined, its access is
prevented.
 http://www.ihbarweb.org.tr website has
been opened for this purpose.
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Internet Hotline
 The hotline will become a member of
international internet Hotline Centers
Association INHOPE (http://www.inhope.org) in
near future.
 As a consulting body - “Internet Board” was
formed contains public officers and
representatives of non-governmental
organizations (NGOs). Number of NGO
representatives is higher than Government
representatives.
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Conclusion and
Suggestions
 We all need to develop new legislations in
fighting against IT crimes and unsecure
internet contents.
 Countries need to strengthen their law
enforcement, by training judges, public
prosecutors and supply the necessary
equipment in fighting IT crimes.
 Internet users need to be educated to be more
conscious of the threats.
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Conclusion and
Suggestions
 Code of conducts need to be developed
internationally to handle the ones coming
through internet.
 The providers must be sensitive for notice and
takedowns. Takedown of the content about
aspertions to a famous person in one country
in another country’s service provider must be
done based on these conducts.
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Conclusion and
Suggestions
 Organizations like INHOPE (http://www.inhope.org)
and INACH (http://www.inach.net) that are fighting
with harmful contents must be strenghtened.
 Also an international method about fighting with
malicious code and spam on internet also must be
adopted and an international organization must be
formed.
 According to some international statistics, countries in
higher internet usage are the ones that produce most
unwanted content. Countries benefiting from Internet
economy must play effective role towards Internet
related problems.
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e_Signature
 In order to solve the trust and security concern in the
cyberspace and to enable individuals to use the internet
for all kinds of transactions we have enacted Electronic
Signature Law in year 2004
 Government Certification Authority distributed 21,000
Qualified Certificates up to May 2008 . 13,000 of them
was distributed to the Ministry of Justice.
 Totally 30,000 civil servants and 40,000 lawyers are
planned to use e-signature within the project.
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E_Government
 One of our important “on-going project” is
called “e-Government Gateway (Portal)”. It will
enable the citizens to access public services,
over a single portal. It will be effective,
transparent, safe and fast manner. First
application will be started on 12 December
2008.
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Mobile e_Signature
 Mobile e- signature is an important
application to stimulate its usage. The
mobile e-signature application was
launched in year 2007.
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e_ID
 We will replace ID cards with an electronic citizenship
cards with embedded biometric data. e-ID will provide
secure ID verification and eliminate the risk of ID theft in
electronic
environment.
Our
Electronic
Identity
Authentication and Management System was announced
in May 2006.
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THANK YOU
Binali YILDIRIM
Minister of Transport and Communications
Republic Of Turkey
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