The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the restriction of access to social media taken by Turkey’s authorities in the days after the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and 105 others on March 19. The authorities imposed immediate bandwidth throttling on major social media platforms and messaging apps, including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, […]
The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) is a Europe-wide mechanism which tracks, monitors and responds to violations of press and media freedom in EU Member States and candidate countries, funded by the European Commission. As an MFRR partner, IPI produces statements on Turkey and conducts press freedom missions in the country.
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