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Turkey punishes Twitter, Pinterest over new ‘censorship’ law

Turkey on Tuesday hit Twitter, Pinterest and Periscope with advertising bans after they failed to follow Facebook and appoint a local representative to take...

Anti-gov’t TV station fined due to remarks of former minister against headscarf freedom

Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has imposed an administrative fine on the anti-government Halk TV due to the remarks...

Turkey officially lifts ban on Uber

Turkey has officially lifted an access ban on the mobile app of global ridesharing company Uber after an appeals court last month overturned a...

Turkey bars access to reports covering gag order on AKP-era corruption files

An İstanbul court has blocked access to news reports covering a ruling made by another local court that blocked access to nearly 300 reports...

Boğaziçi protests against rector banned as 14 more detained on 3rd day of resistance

Resistance at the prestigious Boğaziçi University to the appointment of Professor Melih Bulu, a Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate from İstanbul in the...

Turkey’s disaster authority bans mayors in İzmir from making post-earthquake comments

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) has ordered the mayors in İzmir province, which was hit by a powerful earthquake last month, to...

In his quest to rein in social media, Erdoğan encounters an unfamiliar resistance

Turkey has fined Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok TL 10 million ($ 1.18 million) each. According to a recently enacted law, continued...

Soldier allegedly attacked for defending education in Kurdish language faces terror charges

Çetin Doğan, a military conscript allegedly attacked by two other soldiers for defending Kurdish-language education in Turkey, faces charges that include dissemination of propaganda...

Turkey’s television watchdog fines TLC TV due to episode on homosexual couple

Turkey's Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has fined TLC TV for airing a show depicting the life of a homosexual couple as part...

Who are the Turkish ‘Grey Wolves’ that France vows to ban?

The Grey Wolves, or Ülkü Ocakları as they are known in Turkish, are about to be outlawed in France. Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister...

France to ban Turkey’s ultranationalist Grey Wolves: report

France plans to ban a Turkish ultranationalist group known as the Grey Wolves, the interior minister said on Monday, in a move that risks...

Restrictive social media regulations enter into force in Turkey

Turkey’s new regulations regulating social media took effect on October 1, with tighter restrictions and control over platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube...

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