Belgian Government Site Hacked by Turkish Nationalists
January 15, 2007
Sydney
Morning Herald
The website of Belgium's Defense Ministry was
hacked Sunday by a group of Turkish nationalists, news reports said.
The group, which called itself "grandchildren
of Ottoman Empire and Children of Turkey" posted text in English on the site
defending the World War I-era killing of Armenians in Turkey and asserting that
there was no Kurdish problem in Turkey. It also claimed that the Kurdistan
Workers Party, or PKK, was a terrorist organisation supported by the West,
according to footage shown on RTBF, Belgium's French-language public TV
broadcaster.
There was no suggestion why the group had
chosen a Belgian government site.
Late Sunday, the site,
http://www.mil.be, was still inaccessible.
"We must clearly identify the perpetrators and
take additional measures to avoid a repetition of this in the future," Belgian
Defense Minister Andre Flahaut told RTBF.
