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Al-Monitor
March 26, 2018
Ankara is tightening its grip even further over the media in Turkey with a new law increasing its censorship powers over online content, threatening both ... At the same time, building on earlier restrictions introduced in 2014, the body will be able to demand the removal of content or the restriction of access toÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
March 24, 2018
If they were, they would have refrained from controversial legislation introducing new restrictions on use of the Internet in Turkey. The law regulating video and audio broadcasts online was approved in the Turkish Parliament on March 21 with the majority votes of the ruling Justice and Development PartyÃâà...
Voice of America
March 23, 2018
The sale of one Turkey's largest media conglomerates to a pro-government businessman is being seen as the ruling AKP party strengthening its control of the ... “People follow not only local produced news media on (the) internet, but also Turkish broadcasts by the BBC, VOA and DW, as news sources.
Hurriyet Daily News
March 22, 2018
A law regulating video and audio broadcasts online has been approved in the Turkish Parliament. As a result of the omnibus bill adopted by parliament late on March 21, service providers planning to publish broadcasts on the internet must get a broadcast license and transmission authorization from theÃâà...
Casino.Org News (blog)
March 16, 2018
These middleboxes were found to be hijacking internet users located in Egypt who were using unencrypted (http) web connections. The users were then re-directed to content that generated revenue, such as cryptocurrency mining scripts and affiliate adverts. Further investigation by The Citizen Lab foundÃâà...
Lexology
March 16, 2018
Turkey's Constitutional Court recently annulled a legislative provision which allowed the president of the Turkish Information Technologies and ... 2017, the Constitutional Court annulled Article 8(4 ) of Law number 5651 Regulating Internet Broadcasting and Prevention of Crimes Committed by InternetÃâà...
Gizmodo
March 16, 2018
In a statement Thursday, the service's provider, Proton Technologies AG, said that it became aware of connectivity problems for Turkish users on Tuesday and has since concluded there's no technical glitch. “Internet censorship in Turkey tends to be fluid so the situation is constantly evolving,” Proton said.
Ahval
March 16, 2018
“The type of DNS blocking that has been performed against ProtonMail very much fits the modus operandi of the Turkish government's online censorship efforts,” the company said. ProtonMail also published advice on how to bypass the blocking of its site in Turkey, using either VPN services or by changingÃâà...
Lexology
March 15, 2018
The Draft Law on the Amendments to the Tax Laws and Certain Laws and Decrees ("Draft Law"), recently submitted to the Turkish Parliament, introduces highly significant restrictions in relation to internet broadcasting. Pursuant to the new Article 29/A to be added to Law No. 6112 on the Establishment ofÃâà...
SC Magazine UK
March 14, 2018
Later that year, researchers at Symantec's Norton division found that Turkey had the largest number of total “bot” infections in the world, with internet users in the country plagued with 18.5 percent of all of the bots across the EMEA region. These facts revealed how bots were being regularly used to infectÃâà...
New York Times
March 3, 2018
ISTANBUL — Having already brought Turkey's mainstream media to heel, and made considerable headway in rolling back Turkish democracy, the ... Just three days after the government announced its campaign against Mr. Oktar, it introduced an expansive set of new internet restrictions that would affectÃâà...
New Vision
March 2, 2018
And in January 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan praised Trump for berating a CNN reporter during a live news conference. Erdoğan, who criticized the network for its coverage of pro-democracy protests in Turkey in 2013, said that Trump had put the journalist “in his place.” Trump returnedÃâà...
CPJ Press Freedom Online (blog)
March 1, 2018
Last week, in a separate case, a court handed down a life sentence to Altan for attempting to topple Turkey's constitutional order in the failed July 2016 coup attempt through ... The online newspaper Ahval announced that Turkish authorities blocked access to its website form Turkey-based internet servers.
Ahval
March 1, 2018
Turkey's communications ministry barred access to Ahval in the country citing Law 5651, introduced by parliament in February 2014 to regulate Internet ... President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government has been criticised by the European Union and international human rights groups for censorship of theÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 8, 2018
ISTANBUL, Turkey - The Turkish government is looking to expand its control over the internet and social media, leading to concerns that it intends to deprive independent journalists of their last refuge – and more broadly to censor programming that differs from its own world view. A draft bill submitted toÃâà...
Ahval
December 31, 1999
We in Turkey can no more think of the internet as a tool for free and unlimited access to information without thinking of censorship. We have reached a point where no one finds the blocking of new websites strange, in fact they are surprised when some have not yet been blocked. Censoring the internet is aÃâà...
Rudaw
December 31, 1999
The sentences come as Turkey has increased its crackdown on dissent amid its ongoing offensive against Kurdish groups in Afrin, northern Syria. Free press advocate the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Ankara to scrap a draft bill that would “expand internet censorship.” The parliament'sÃâà...
