Earlier this month a report by the Freedom of Expression Association in Turkey revealed the extent of internet censorship already in place. According to the report 130,000 URLs, 7,000 Twitter accounts, 40,000 tweets, 10,000 YouTube videos and 6,200 Facebook accounts were banned last year.
A leading case regarding Internet censorship is Ahmet Yildirim v. Turkey (2013), before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR): it concerns the Internet Law No. 5651 and the blocking of "Google Sites", defamation, the usage of disproportionate measures and the need for restrictions to be prescribed by law. Abstract Turkey passed an internet censorship law in 2007 with the declared objective of protecting families and minors (Akdeniz, 2010). It established a unit within the regulator BTK (Information and Communication Technologies Authority) responsible for imposing bans and blocks on websites based on nine catalogue crimes defined by other national laws (Akgül 2008, 2009a, 2009b). Turkey's internet, which has 42.3 million active users, holds a 'Not Free' ranking in Freedom House's index. Turkish government has constantly blocked websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia. According to Twitter's transparency report, Turkey leads in social media censorship. Nov 13, 2019 · Following the attempted military coup in 2016, Turkey has become one of the world’s harsher regimes when it comes to internet censorship. Turks can be hounded on Twitter by violent pro-Erdogan
Nov 30, 2018 · In just a few years, internet censorship had become normalized, Uyanik continued. “Even though 220,000 Internet sites have been blocked in Turkey, and more than 100 people are taken into police custody every month to be questioned about something they wrote on social media, the Turkish public remains silent,” he concluded.
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Turkey is an Internet-savvy country with 21.9 million broadband Internet subscriptions as of last September, according to a report by Turkey's Information and Communication Technologies Authority "That's why the Turkish authorities are targeting the internet,” he said. The association’s data shows that over 245,000 web sites have been blocked in Turkey, while Twitter and Youtube also face temporary blocks and Wikipedia has been banned since 2017. Internet censorship is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet enacted by regulators, or on their own initiative. Individuals and organizations may engage in self-censorship for moral, religious, or business reasons, to conform to societal norms, due to intimidation, or out of fear of legal or other consequences. The report uncovers anomalies on Egyptian networks, including censorship and the hijacking of unencrypted HTTP connections for advertising and cryptocurrency mining. Read full report in English Read full report in Arabic Read the summary of the report in Arabic Last year, Egypt ordered the blocking of 21 news websites. OONI, a censorship measurement project under the Tor Project, responded by