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The law requires online video and streaming services to apply for a license to broadcast to Turkish internet users. [1] [2] Turkey's internet, in 2018 which has 42.3 million active users, holds a 'Not Free' ranking in Freedom House's index. [3] Turkish government has constantly blocked websites like Instagram, Discord, Twitter, YouTube and ...
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights' report on freedom of expression and media freedom in Turkey, after his 2016 visits to Turkey, noted that the violations to freedom of expression in Turkey have created a distinct chilling effect, manifesting in self- censorship both among the remaining media and among ordinary citizens. [66]
According to the EngelliWeb Report of the Freedom of Expression Association (İfade Özgürlüğü Derneği) entitled Fahrenheit 5651: The Scorching Effect of Censorship, [16] by the end of 2020, Turkey had blocked access to more than 467.000 websites. 409.000 orders issued by 764 different institutions, including criminal judgeships of peace and other authorized public institutions.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey has blocked access to instant messaging platform Discord in line with a court decision after the platform refused to share information demanded by Ankara, Turkish ...
Internet tools: e-mail, Internet hosting, search, translation, and Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, and censorship or filtering circumvention methods. Due to legal concerns the ONI does not check for filtering of child pornography and because their classifications focus on technical filtering, they do not include other types of ...
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey blocked access to social media platform Instagram on Friday for failing to comply with the country's "laws and rules", a government minister said. The move came after a ...
Some countries have faulted Turkey for funding Islamist rebel groups in Syria, including al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, the al-Nusra Front. [12] [13] In October 2014, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE had "poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Al-Assad".
GDANSK (Reuters) -Turkey has blocked access to the popular video game platform Roblox over concerns about content that could lead to child abuse, the country's justice minister said.