Erdogan government advances plan to tighten social media controls ahead of possible early elections
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Turkish government is preparing legislation that would require social media users to link their accounts to their ...
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Erdogan gov’t claims social media platforms agree to mandatory ID login as censorship and pressure increase
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey is preparing new legislation that will require social media users to log in with their national identification ...
Deadly clash exposes systemic failures in Turkey’s fight against ISIS
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The death of three police officers during a counterterrorism operation against suspected Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ...
Spanish Supreme Court exposes Turkey’s role in channeling jihadists to Syria
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In July Spain’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Spanish-Moroccan who fought with al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Jabhat ...
Turkish military to enforce strict social media ban for soldiers after security breaches and ambushes
Levent Kenez/Stockholm An amendment to the Personnel Law of the Turkish Armed Forces that introduces new restrictions on social media ...
Turkish police chase down social media users who shared messages critical of the gov’t after massive earthquakes
Levent Kenez /Stockholm Turkish police continue to go after people it claims to have shared "provocative" posts on social media after ...
Turkish social media users who post or share critical messages can be accused of membership in a terrorist organization under new media law
Levent Kenez/Stockholm The Turkish parliament next Saturday enters its last legislative term before the upcoming elections in 2023, and it is ...
New media laws ban critical reporting on Turkish Intelligence
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A media bill harshly criticized by legal experts and journalists for bringing new censorship to the media will ...
Erdoğan to enact new laws to silence opposition on social media before the elections
Levent Kenez/Stockholm President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government plans to increase its control over news websites and social media with new ...
Hundreds of Twitter accounts that exposed torture were blocked in Turkey due to national security
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A Turkish judge last week blocked access to hundreds of tweets and Twitter accounts that mentioned torture in ...
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