Mehmet Cengiz demanded one million lira in compensation from the newspaper.

Şahin also holds seats at the boards of the Press Advertising Agency (BİK), an agency responsible for distributing public notices in newspapers, and the state-run Halkbank.

Preparing a report for the Freedom Research Association, journalist Derya Sazak says, “First, democracy must be restored and judicial independence must be ensured so that freedom of expression and press can be safeguarded in Turkey.”

According to İstanbul Bar’s IT Law Center Founder Gökhan Ahi, if the advertisers and users want to give an ad to the social media providers which have not yet appointed local representatives, there is no obstacle in their way.

Following Turkey’s advertising ban on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest over their failure to appoint local representatives, International Press Institute (IPI) has reiterated its call to Turkey to withdraw the new social media law and penalties on companies.

We have spoken with representatives of journalism organizations after recent attacks against journalists.

Access blocks affected at least 1,910 URLs, 870 of the blocked URLs contained news and 26 news websites were blocked from November 2019 to October 2020.

Marking the anniversary of Dink's murder, journalism groups also pointed to the recent attacks on journalists.

After Facebook announced that it would appoint a local representative in Turkey in compliance with the new social media law, Amnesty International and ARTICLE 19 have expressed their concerns, calling on the companies “not to contribute to censorship.”

If the companies continue to refuse to appoint a legal representative in Turkey, they will face bandwidth restrictions of up to 90 percent.

While agreeing to comply with the country's new social media law, Facebook has said that it will withdraw its representative if it is asked to take actions that violate its Community Standards.

The president joined Telegram and BiP, a domestic application, after WhatsApp's new privacy policy caused controversy.

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has fined Halk TV over the remarks of politician Fikri Sağlar about veiled judges and TELE 1 channel over the remarks of a program host accusing the Presidency of Religious Affairs.

The Press Advertising Agency often imposes public ad bans on independent newspapers that are critical of the government.

After the Competition Board, the Personal Data Protection Authority has also launched an inquiry into the messenger's new privacy terms.

Freedom of expression organizations ARTICLE 19 and İFÖD have criticized TikTok’s decision to appoint a local representative in Turkey in compliance with the new social media law: “This decision seriously threatens free speech on its platform.”

After WhatsApp announced its new privacy policy, it has faced backlash from users in Turkey as many are moving to other messengers.

Turkey has entered 2021 with a crisis that might lead the Council of Europe to impose sanctions as Erdoğan has announced that he does not recognize the ECtHR judgement on jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş. Not to mention other violations of rights…

The two journalists who co-authored the book face several charges while reports about the content of the book are getting blocked to access.

Journalist Pelin Ünker has a history of being targeted by businesspeople and politicians because of her reports about leaked documents.