The Guardian reports that Turkish creationist Harun Yahya has gotten Richard Dawkins’s website banned in Turkey.

Adnan Oktar, who writes under the pen name of Harun Yahya, complained that Dawkins, a fierce critic of creationism and intelligent design, had insulted him in comments made on forums and blogs.

According to Oktar’s office, Istanbul’s second criminal court of peace banned the site earlier this month on the grounds that it “violated” Oktar’s personality.

His press assistant, Seda Aral, said: “We are not against freedom of speech or expression but you cannot insult people. We found the comments hurtful. It was not a scientific discussion. There was a line and the limit has been passed. We have used all the legal means to stop this site. We asked them to remove the comments but they did not.”

Continue reading here. See also, at New Humanist‘s blog, results of a short interview with Yahya’s Science Research Foundation. And the wild success of the Turkish edition of Dawkins’s The Ancestor’s Tale.