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X Faces Pressure to Reject Turkey’s Broad Requests to Block Accounts

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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...

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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.

·Istanbul, Türkiye
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In response to these restrictions, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Turkish Journalists' Union (TGS) make the following clear and public call to Platform X and its leadership: X must not block access to the accounts of journalists and media organizations in Turkey without a court order or an express, transparent decision by an independent judicial body that is subject to revi…

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europeanjournalists.org broke the news on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
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