To Have Intellectual Freedom Or To Be Censored

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according to Harer (1992:26) Furthermore, when you limit the freedoms, you prevent everything that can be used for the good of human beings, as no freedom means no development.
From the beginning of the existence of human beings, intellectual freedom has been seen as an inevitable fact of his/her life. So intellectual freedom - as a part human life- by experiencing many changes in different periods of the history, has also evolved itself. As Bekir �zgen (1994:20-27) expresses in his book �D���nce �zg�rl��� ve Laiklik�that, ��zg�r d���ncenin insan kafas�na yerle�mesi uzun zaman alm��t�r. Kolay olmam��t�r. ��nk� insan her zaman bir �otoriteye ba��ml�l�k� duymu�tur . . . . �lk�a�da ak�l, �zg�r olmaya �ncelikle Yunan ve Roma�da ba�lam��t�r. . . . Orta�a� bir t�r karanl�klar �a� olmu�, d���nce tutsakla�t�r�lm��t�r. Daha sonra Avrupa�da meydana gelen R�nesans ve Reform ile ak�l ayd�nl��a ��km��, Ayd�nlanma �a� ile birlikte hurafe ve k�r inan�lar�n yerine �zg�r d���nce ve bilimsel ...

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majority show that people are against the idea of censorship, some of the laws of the Turkish Constitution should be changed in order to make people benefit from their basic democratic rights. But like in every field, there are some people and groups that support censorship not intellectual freedom. They give their reasons such as to provide the motherland�s and the nation�s indivisible wholeness and stability for the imperialistic supports, and another perspective, my side of the matter.
II. THE MOTHERLAND�S AND NATION�S INDIVISIBLE WHOLENESS
Intellectual freedom, which involves the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech, the freedom of press, and the right to assembly, has ...

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