The Pirate Party Turkey is a not-yet-officially-formed political party

Political party

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 movement in Turkey based on the model of the Swedish Piratpartiet.

Party Platform

The party opposes the dismantlement of civil rights

Civil rights

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 in telephony

Telephony

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 and on the Internet

Internet

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, in particular the Europe

Europe

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an data retention

Telecommunications data retention

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 policies and Turkey's view on Internet censorship. It also opposes various measures of surveillance

Surveillance

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 of citizens.

The party favors the civil right to information privacy and reforms of copyright

Copyright

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, education

Education

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, computer science

Computer science

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 and genetic patents.

It promotes in particular an enhanced transparency

Transparency (social)

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 of government

Government

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 by implementing open source governance

Open source governance

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 and providing for APIs

Application programming interface

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to allow for electronic inspection and control of government operations by the citizen.

External links

• Korsan Parti Hareketi - Korsan Parti Hareketi Official Website
• Korsanlar - Youth organisation