A court in Turkey has overturned the ban it placed on the public site YouTube on Wednesday following the deletion of a video on the site perceived to be insulting to Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Ataturk founded the modern Turkish republic in 1923 and is highly respected by Turks.

The offending video had been the latest in an ongoing battle between Turkish and Greek YouTube users on the popular video sharing portal where insulting videos and comments have been posted since the beginning of the year according to press reports.

Turkish news agency Anatolia reported Ahter Kutadgu, corporate affairs director of Turkey's main Internet provider, Turk Telekom, as saying "Once we received the court decision revoking the ban, we allowed access to YouTube."

The Turkish court ruled that it would overturn its ban if the video was removed. YouTube removed the video following protesting e-mails from Turkish users according to the Turkish press.