Turkey will hold the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced.
A presidential decree concerning the decision will be published in the Official Gazette tomorrow, the president said at a press conference in Ankara, the capital.
36 parties qualify to run in upcoming elections
- ➤In Türkiye, classic media capture was largely completed in 2018 when the Doǧan media group was sold to the government-aligned Demirören media group providing near dominance of the media landscape.
➤On 13 October, the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye adopted a bill aimed at combating disinformation, consisting of some 40 articles amending the Internet Law, the Press Law, and the Turkish Penal Code. Entered into force on 18 October, the law now punishes with one to three years in prison anyone found guilty of “deliberately publishing disinformation and false information” intended to arouse fear or cause panic, to endanger the country’s internal or external security, public order and the health of Turkish society. These penalties can be doubled in case of publication from an anonymous account, by a person hiding his/her identity, or by any other person acting on behalf of a criminal organization. The law also expands restrictions on social media first passed in 2020, making it easier for the Turkish authorities to remove content from the internet. It also scaled up the powers against social media platforms to force them to remove content or face massive fines (up to 3% of global revenue), advertising bans and bandwidth throttling.”
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‘The internet’s sewer’: why Turkey blocked its most popular social site
Launched on the eve of the millennium, Turkey’s most popular homegrown social media website has weathered lawsuits, criticism from the highest levels of government and even death threats directed at one of its founders. A simple editable online dictionary turned national obsession, Ekşi Sözlük has for more than two decades spurred its own biting form of social satire while providing a rare haven for free expression on the Turkish internet.
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An access ban imposed on Ekşi Sözlük, one of the most popular websites in Türkiye, has been lifted, the CEO of the platform has announced.
Racist attacks on Kurdish football team during match sparks outrage
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Players of Amedspor, a football team based in the Kurdish-majority province of Diyarbakır, were targeted in racist attacks ahead of and during yesterday’s (March 5) game against Bursaspor.
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