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The mass media in Turkey includes a wide variety of domestic and foreign periodicals expressing disparate views, and domestic newspapers are extremely competitive. [1] However, media ownership is concentrated in the hands of a few large private media groups which are typically part of wider conglomerates controlled by wealthy individuals, which ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish police detained 217 people on Wednesday, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, after tear gas and rubber bullets were used to stop the protesters reaching Taksim Square ...
On the morning of 29 April 2017, Turkey Blocks broke news of the nationwide block of all language editions of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. The alert, cited widely by international media and Turkish national broadcaster TRT, described a scheme of "filtering [...] in addition to DNS spoofing" applied by service providers to restrict access to the popular website.
Disunity among Turkey's opposition parties has boosted President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes that his AK Party can regain control of Istanbul in this month's municipal elections, pollsters say ...
Twitter on Monday defended its actions surrounding the presidential elections in Turkey over the weekend. “We were in negotiation with the Turkish Government throughout last week, who made clear ...
In January 2012, Yeni Akit was fined by the Turkish High Court of Appeals over comments published in 2008 describing gay people as "perverts." In the aftermath of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting the newspaper published a headline calling the victims "deviants" or "perverted", which in turn was criticized by foreign media outlets.
March. March 2: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, the HES Code application, which had been implemented since April 10, 2020, and the obligation to wear masks in open areas were lifted as a result of the Coronavirus Scientific Advisory Board meeting held on March 2, 2022. However, the Advisory Board announced that the HES Code application ...
The Turkish government previously blocked access to Twitter for a short period of time in February, in the wake of a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people.