by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish TV station has reportedly refused to air an election campaign video prepared by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) for the upcoming local elections. Upon the refusals, the party officals posted the campaign video on the party’s Twitter...
by TurkeyPurge | May 8, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
More than one million people took to Twitter on Tuesday to call time on President Tayyip Erdogan, tweeting “Tamam” (“Enough”) hours after he promised to step down if “Turkish nation says enough” in the upcoming election. Addressing his ruling Justice and...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 721 Twitter accounts are currently banned in Turkey, according to US-based BuzzFeed online news outlet on Jan 24. Obtaining data from Twitter and its own sources, BuzzFeed said the country with the most withheld accounts in the data set is Germany with 758,...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The legal team of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sent a court decision to Twitter ordering the censoring of 80 posts including 11 cartoons by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff. Sharing the ruling on his Twitter account on Monday, Latuff said: “Lawyers of...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 22, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey came first in the Twitter’s censorship index by content removal requests that the microblogging company received worldwide in the first half of 2017. A total of 1,995 content removal requests were filed by Turkey’s government agencies including police and other...