CPJ, Partners Ask Turkey and Social Media Platforms to Halt Online Crackdown on Journalists and Rights Defenders
The groups said authorities blocked at least 1,270 X accounts in September, and X complied with 90% of the orders.
- On Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists joined 20 partner organizations in a joint statement condemning Turkey's escalation of internet censorship and urging social media platforms to stop complying with disproportionate blocking orders.
- Turkish authorities ordered access blocked to at least 1,270 X accounts with a combined following of 35 million in September, according to Freedom of Expression Association data, invoking Article 8/A of the Internet Law.
- Social media platform X complied with at least 90% of these orders by geo-blocking accounts within Turkey, while neither X nor Meta have provided public explanations regarding their responses to these censorship waves.
- On September 29, authorities blocked the T24 website and its X account, with a court order claiming content was "aimed at disrupting and weakening the Turkish family structure" without explaining the specific threat posed.
- The justice minister announced the establishment of new "Digital Space Security and Countering Disinformation Bureaux" on September 24, empowering specialized prosecutors to monitor digital content and intervene against alleged disinformation more swiftly.
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The Turkish government increases the pressure on media on the Internet. In September alone, it ordered bans against almost 1,300 X-accounts. Affected editors struggle to reach their readers further. By Antonia Ruller.
Twenty-one international organizations, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Article 19, have reacted to the blocking of social media accounts belonging to journalists, academics, activists, and independent media outlets in Türkiye. The organizations called on social media platforms, including X, to oppose these decisions.
CPJ, partners ask Turkey and social media platforms to halt online crackdown on journalists and rights defenders
The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday joined 20 local and international partner organizations in a joint statement asking Turkey and social media platforms to stop censoring journalists and rights defenders online by blocking their accounts, and respect the right to free expression. The Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD) found that in September alone, Turkish...
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Türkiye: End Internet Censorship
Click to expand Image Tags, with “Access blocked” and the name of blocked accounts belonging to journalists and media outlets, LGBT and women’s rights groups, and other rights defenders, are tied to the gates of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, to protest the Turkish authorities’ blocking of hundreds of social media accounts and websites. Ankara, October 7, 2026. © 2026 Yıldız Yazıcıoğlu (Istanbul, October 12, 2026) – The Turkish authorities over …
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