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Turkey opened an investigation into dozens of power producers which it alleges failed to adjust their output to balance ...
The law promotes free expansion and access to information, prohibiting the censorship of materials in libraries.
Turkey is an extremely popular destination, both for holidays and for people looking to get cost-effective dentistry and weight-loss surgery. But is Turkey safe for LGBTQ+ people to visit and is it ...
A coalition of 15 Turkish non-governmental organizations under the Palestine Solidarity Platform will hold a torchlit march ...
Turkey blocked access to Instagram after a top government official accused the social media platform of censoring content related to the killing of a Hamas senior official. The country's ...
Marking Turkish Press Day, which honours the freedoms gained in the revolution of 1908, journalists’ unions and media organisations called on President Erdogan's government to stop censoring ...
So, obviously, Twitter must obey Turkish law about what may be said on Twitter in Turkey. The only other alternative is not to have Twitter in Turkey.
But the way the Turkish censorship law is constructed, the sole authority to decide what is offensive is vested in the ruling party, with zero independent oversight or citizen participation.
Impacts outside of media Whereas the latest bill represents a widespread crackdown on newsrooms and political offices, the impact that Turkey’s increasingly threatening censorship laws have on the ...
A new law gives Turkey fresh ammunition to censor the media and silence dissent ahead of elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to prolong his two decades in office, journalists ...