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İzmir newspaper faces censorship after report on religious group's involvement in student housing
The newspaper wasn’t allowed to publish the story concerning the religious group that the printing house is linked to.
2 October 2024
Court blocks social media accounts of two Kurdish journalists
The court provided “national security” reasons for the decision.
23 August 2024
Pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya Agency’s website blocked
The agency has changed its domain to continue its operations.
22 August 2024
Instagram continues to censor Hamas-related posts despite agreement with Turkey
While the messages of senior government officials remain accessible, the platform removes similar messages from other users.
14 August 2024
Turkey restores access to Instagram after Hamas row
The initial disagreement between government officials and Meta reportedly arose over the definition of “terrorism.” Meanwhile, Meta had already removed or restricted nearly 2,500 posts as per Turkish authorities' requests in the first half of 2024.
12 August 2024
Sixty-one bar associations in Turkey demand lift of Instagram ban
The ban was enacted following the government’s criticism of the platform’s alleged censorship of condolences for killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
7 August 2024
‘Instagram ban could cost Turkey $57 million daily’
Government officials are scheduled to meet with Instagram representatives today, and the transport minister has expressed optimism that the ban may soon be lifted.
5 August 2024
Turkey blocks Instagram after Erdoğan aide’s ‘censorship’ claim over killed Hamas leader
The president’s communications director criticized Instagram for censoring messages of condolences for the Hamas leader. Hours later, the internet authority blocked the platform without providing a specific reason.
2 August 2024
Turkey’s media regulator penalizes streaming platforms over 'immoral' movies
Netflix has been fined due to the comedy film ‘Sausage Party’ and MUBI and BluTV have been fined due to ‘Climax.’ The platforms have been ordered to remove these movies.
1 August 2024
Access to news site banned after pro-government media group’s request
Medya Radar, a news site focusing on the journalism sector, had reported allegations of low wages against the Turkuvaz Media group.
31 July 2024
Turkey becomes first country to ban Wattpad
Prior to the ban, there had been increasing criticism on social media from conservative groups regarding the content available on Wattpad.
18 July 2024
Pro-Erdoğan professor gets over 2,900 articles about him censored
Among the censored content is bianet's Media Monitoring Report, which documents all detected violations of press freedom in Turkey.
1 July 2024
Censorship on bianet article lifted after top court ruling
New regarding the death of a patient in an İzmir hospital was censored. The censorship has been lifted after the Constitutional Court annulled a law article allowing access bans on grounds of "violation of personal rights."
20 March 2024
Mezopotamya Agecy censored
In response to the censorship of the domain, the Mezopotamya Agency switched to mezopotamyaajansi.net.
13 March 2024
Ekşi sözlük ban lifted following top court verdict
Ekşi Sözlük, one of the most popular websites in Turkey, has been banned several times since last year's earthquakes.
23 January 2024
Report: Turkey blocked over 4,400 Twitter URLs in 2022
Most of the tweets were related to irregularity allegations against public officials and “violation of personal rights” was the most common reason, according to the Free Web Turkey report.
21 December 2023
Turkey’s ‘Ekşi Sözlük’ social media site banned again
A group monitoring online censorship in the country reported that the website was banned for reasons related to “national security and the preservation of public order.”
14 December 2023
Report: Turkey blocked access to over 40,000 URLs in 2022
The major portion of access restrictions in the past year targeted media outlets critical of the government and news related to President Erdoğan and his family, shows the Free Web Turkey report.
30 October 2023
Minister: Turkey blocked 108 million attempts to access 'harmful' websites in a decade
Those "harmful" websites are primarily identified through the filtration of various keywords, which at times results in the blocking of LGBTI+ websites.
21 August 2023
Prisoner's drawing materials seized during cell raid
The justification for confiscating the pens was cited as "drawing party flags and symbols."
15 August 2023
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Court blocks access to news report that led to detention of five journalists
The journalist who reported on the reassignment of a married judge and prosecutor presiding over the same case was remanded in custody. Four others, including a bianet editor, were briefly detaining for retweeting a post containing this information.
28 July 2023
Courts block access to hundreds of news pieces about Erdoğan's sons
The blocked news pieces include domestic and international corruption allegations against Bilal Erdoğan and the 1998 killing of a singer, for which Burak Erdoğan stood trial.
24 July 2023
Court blocks access to reports about employment agency official's deceptive conduct towards job-seeking women
Gıyas Güven was accused of enticing women seeking employment by promising them jobs and engaging in sexual relationships with them.
13 July 2023
Turkey bans OnlyFans following court order
The court decision to ban the platform comes after a massive social media campaign accusing OnlyFans and its content creators of "obscenity" and "immorality."
8 June 2023
Turkey blocks access to platform monitoring web censorship
The EngelliWeb platform has been keeping a tally of the number of banned web addresses, including news articles.
21 March 2023
Ministry censors renowned novelist's book
A 2007 novel by Ahmet Ümit has been deemed "obscene." The novelist criticized the decision on Twitter.
17 March 2023
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RSF denounces censorship of earthquake coverage in Turkey
"While the country needs transparency more than ever before, these decisions to block access to reports once again serve the purpose of preventing criticism against the government's post-earthquake practices," the RSF representative in Turkey has said.
17 March 2023
Access to Ekşi Sözlük blocked again
Yesterday, a court lifted a ban on the social network that had been in place for nine days.
3 March 2023
Court lifts access ban on Kurdish publishing house's website
The Avesta Publishing House was among the several sites that were blocked for "terror propaganda."
1 March 2023
'This is censorship': Ekşi Sözlük CEO slams access ban, vows to take legal action
One of the most popular websites in Türkiye, Ekşi Sözlük was banned after the earthquakes. The reason for the ban is still not clear.
27 February 2023
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Türkiye blocks access to Kurdish-focused websites, including Rudaw
The websites have been banned for "terrorist propaganda" after a complaint by the police.
23 February 2023
Türkiye blocks access to popular social media platform Ekşi Sözlük
While the reason for the decision is not yet clear, many social media users assume that it was part of the government's efforts to curb social media following the devastating earthquakes on February 6.
21 February 2023
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