Rights Groups Urge Social Media Platforms to Resist Turkish Orders to Block Accounts
The groups said 1,270 accounts were restricted in September, and they urged X to challenge orders that lacked clear judicial backing.
- On Monday, more than a dozen human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Article 19, urged social media platform X to resist Turkish court orders blocking accounts belonging to journalists and activists.
- The Freedom of Expression Association reported that Turkey restricted 1,270 accounts in September, with courts verifying grounds for only 115 of them while reasons for the remaining 1,155 remain undisclosed.
- Rights groups expressed particular concern over the barring of T24, one of the country's largest independent news outlets, which Turkish authorities justified by citing "public safety" without specific explanation.
- Elon Musk's X stated it complies with orders to avoid severe sanctions like platform throttling, though it continues to challenge these requests in court to support freedom of expression in Turkey.
- Journalists investigating a recent investment fund scandal involving a senior official from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party face increased pressure, with two arrested and two placed under house arrest last week.
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Rights groups urge social media platforms to resist Turkish orders to block accounts
Human rights groups urge social media platforms, including X, to resist Turkish court orders censoring journalists and activists.
The IFJ, EFJ, and TGS have called on the X administration regarding the access restrictions imposed on the accounts of journalists and media organizations in Turkey. The organizations demanded that accounts not be blocked without an independent judicial decision, that the legal basis for requests to block access be reviewed and shared with the public.
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On Tuesday, journalism groups called on social platform X not to comply with government takedown orders directed at journalists and media outlets in Turkey that occur outside the course of regular...
The liquidation of investment funds in Turkey triggered a wave of blockages on X, hitting nearly 500 accounts of journalists, economists and academics in a week.
IFÖD reported that at least 39 more X accounts, including those of writers, historians, and journalists, have been blocked.
At least 39 X accounts, including those of writer, historian, and journalist Dilek Zaptçıoğlu, Ayhan Dadaloğlu (who shares information on the stock market and economics), lawyer Lale Demirkazan, journalist Ayça Yılmaz, and Arşiv Saka (who shares news/commentary on current events), have been blocked. A large portion of these accounts were made invisible from Turkey by X. The total number of followers of the blocked accounts is approximately 465,0…
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