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[Commlist] Report: Impact of Social Media Law on Media Freedom in Turkey

Fri Sep 24 08:36:19 GMT 2021



The Media Research Association published "Impact of Social Media Law on Media Freedom in Turkey Report"

After Social Media Law was amended in July 2020 and came into effect as of October 1, 2020, the Media Research Association monitored the law's impact on media freedom in Turkey for seven months. Research team -consisting of Gürkan Özturan, Dilek İçten, Hasan Berk Akkoç- received input from 35 media organizations which listed 658 news articles that were removed during the monitoring period.

Highest number of articles that were removed were news pieces about /corruption and irregularities in official processes /as well as those published on /abuse of authority/.

Among the sources of the takedown requests stood out the /businesspeople /and /ministers of the government/, closely followed by /high level bureaucrats/; most popularly cited reason for takedown requests was "/violation of personal rights/" of the complainants, which is a vaguely defined term according to the Turkish Penal Code.

You may access the full report on the link below, any questions, comments, or requests of further commentary can be directed to (gurkan.ozturan /at/ ecpmf.eu) <mailto:(gurkan.ozturan /at/ ecpmf.eu)>

To access full report: https://medarder.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Impact-of-Social-Media-Law-on-Media-Freedom-in-Turkey-Monitoring-Report.pdf <https://medarder.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Impact-of-Social-Media-Law-on-Media-Freedom-in-Turkey-Monitoring-Report.pdf>


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