Turkey partially bans certain contents from X (formerly Twitter)'s AI chatbot Grok amid a criminal probe over insults to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. 2025-07-9
Turkey bans the social media platform Discord after it allegedly refused to give government officials information related to "child sexual abuse and obscenity" and the murder of two women in Istanbul last week. 2024-10-9
Turkey blocks internet access to Instagram, following comments made by Turkish communications director Fahrettin Altun that condemned Meta Platforms for taking down Instagram posts offering condolences or expressing sorrow towards the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. 2024-08-2
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey passes a new social media regulation bill that requires foreign sites to appoint Turkish-based representatives to help monitor content, and will punish companies that don't comply with fines and throttling bandwidth. 2020-07-29
Turkey blocks access to the websites of Saudi Press Agency and Emirates News Agency in response to Saudi Arabia blocking access to Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency a few days ago. 2020-04-19
The Constitutional Court of Turkey orders the immediate lifting of the block of Wikipedia in Turkey, ruling it a violation of the freedom of expression. In response to the news, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales says, "Welcome back, Turkey!" 2019-12-26
Turkey's Minister of the Interior Süleyman Soylu says almost 500 people were investigated and 121 have been detained for "insulting" the Turkish offensive in Syria on social media and characterizing Turkey as an "invading" force. 2019-10-11
Voters head to the polls in Turkey to vote on metropolitan and district municipal mayors along with provincial and municipal councillors. The election is believed to be contested on challenging the current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 2019-03-31
Turkish police storm and shut down both Kanaltürk TV and Bugün, TV stations that have been critical of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) ahead of a general election on November 1. Baris Yarkadas, a lawmaker with the main-opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), said “We are witnessing the police entering news organizations, delivering declarations and taking over journalists’ seats—just like junta periods, this is called a police state”. 2015-10-28