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Data Narratives Civic Media Observatory: Country Reports

Written by Civic Media Observatory

31 December 2024

Artificial Intelligence Narratives: A Global Voices Report

Written by Civic Media Observatory

23 December 2024

One hundred Turkish lira for your data: How Turkish citizens lost all expectations of data security and privacy

Written by Sencer Odabaşı

21 August 2024

Turkey blocks access to Instagram

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

2 August 2024

Stories about Turkey

Lion or mosquito: The state of the AI debate in Turkey

AI's real impact is subtler than its political implications.

Written by Sencer Odabaşı

31 May 2024

Turkey joins the ranks of countries considering a foreign agent law

Anyone can be labeled an agent of influence

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

16 May 2024

Turkey heads to the polls for local elections

The results of the race will shape the country's future

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

27 March 2024

How Turkey’s opposition media empowers Erdoğan

Turkey's voters can only be empowered if they are better-informed

Written by Sinan Ciddi

21 March 2024

Turkey bans access to 16 VPN providers

The list will grow ahead of local elections pundits say

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

26 December 2023

In Turkey, the state is targeting scores of journalists

The state is relying on an infamous 2022 disinformation bill

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

7 November 2023

Anti-refugee rhetoric and the new far-right on Turkish social media

Social media celebrities lead frustrated young men to targetrefugees

Written by Sencer Odabaşı

17 July 2023

The plight of Kurdish journalists in their struggle for free expression

Stateless Kurdish journalists face oppression, censorship, and other threats

Written by Tara Aziz

8 May 2023

In Turkey, the state resorts to censorship majeure

Many ask whether restrictions are being used to silence state criticism

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

13 February 2023

In Turkey, local court hands popular mayor a jail sentence

Imamoglu will remain in power until the court of appeals decision

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

15 December 2022

In Turkey, social media platforms become complicit in censoring media and freedom of speech

This does not bode well for the elections coming in 2023

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

29 November 2022

In Turkey, a football federation joins a list of institutions with powers to censor content online

That list now expands over some twenty entities, critics say

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

18 November 2022

Turkey throttles internet access following deadly explosion in Istanbul

"The world is talking about the explosion while Turkey cannot"

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

13 November 2022

Turkish lawmakers ratify new disinformation bill

The restrictions went into effect on October 18

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

21 October 2022

Whistleblowing is a service to society: Interview with Disruption Network Lab director Tatiana Bazzichelli

Whistleblowing should be a civil right

Written by Filip Noubel

25 August 2022

Unfreedom Monitor Report: Turkey

An excerpt from Advox research on digital authoritarianism in Turkey

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

11 August 2022

Under BTK's eye: investigation reveals Turkey's information and communication authority has been collecting private user data for over a year

Turkey's information and communication authority is spying on its citizens.

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

5 August 2022

Access the Unfreedom Monitor database

The relational database of the Unfreedom Monitor research

Written by Advox

14 July 2022

Turkey blocks access to two news websites

A local court ruled in favor of the access ban

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

1 July 2022

Trace Turkey's path to normalizing the practice of blocking news websites

From YouTube to websites: how blocking specific URLs became the norm

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

3 June 2022

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