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Outrage in Turkey after Facebook blocks Islamist pages and hacking groups
Islamists across Turkey are taking to Twitter to protest against the closure of several fundamentalist Facebook groups and pages. Conservative Turks, who represent a...
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Outrage in Turkey after Facebook blocks Islamist pages and hacking groups
Islamists across Turkey are taking to Twitter to protest against the closure of several fundamentalist Facebook groups and pages. Conservative Turks, who represent a...
Cumhuriyet Newspaper Website Blocked in Turkey
Internet censorship watchdog TurkeyBlocks reports that Cumhuriyet, Turkey's oldest mainstream newspaper, has been blocked selectively by some of the country's largest ISPs (Internet Service...
HEADLINES
TECH AND GADGETS
Military coup d’etat seeks to take hold of power in Turkey
At approximately 10:00PM local time 15 July 2016, reports emerged of multiple incidents in Istanbul and Ankara involving military forces that have since been declared a...
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Pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newspaper shut down
A Turkish court has ordered the closure of Özgür Gündem (loosely translated, Free Agenda) on grounds of "producing terror propaganda" for the PKK separatist group.
The...
TURKEY
Twitter and Facebook throttled in Turkey after third Ankara bombing
The TurkeyBlocks internet censorship monitoring team has confirmed that Turkish ISPs have once again censored Twitter and Facebook, following a third major explosion in Ankara at...
Startups face new uncertainties as PayPal announces Turkey withdrawal
Turkish online shoppers and retailers face isolation from the international community following an announcement that the operations of PayPal, the global e-commerce payments provider, will cease operations in...
Dutch minister Koenders to investigate Amnesty claims
Dutch politician and diplomat Bert Koenders will travel to Turkey later this week to investigate differing reports covering the treatment of migrants, and specifically allegations that...
Twitter and Facebook Restricted in Turkey following Ankara bombing
Internet censorship monitoring service TurkeyBlocks has confirmed that Turkish ISPs including TTNet have censored Twitter and Facebook by means of bandwidth throttling.
The new blocks came...
Hashtag Explained: #HocamaDokunma
Turkish NGOs, human rights organisations and university groups have organised a social media campaign on Twitter and Instagram in support of 1,128 academics accused...
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Turkey to boost surveillance and signals intelligence capacity with new National...
Turkey has outlined plans to divide its MIT intelligence unit into separate foreign and domestic agencies, part of a reform intended to support the...
