Turkish Twitch influencers nabbed in $10 mln fraud case Hurriyet Daily News Some 40 suspects, including 31 famous Turkish Twitch influencers, have been detained in simultaneous operations in 11 provinces after police determined a crime syndicate laundered some $10 million “using social media celebrities.”
Website for help against sexual violence now online in Kurdish, English, Arabic Bianet :: English csdestek.org aims to inform those who survived sexual violence, including foreign citizens, about how they can access their rights. csdestek.org 82.7 percent of children use the Internet in Turkey, shows TurkStat survey Bianet :: English In the activities carried out on the … Read more
3 YouTubers doing street interviews placed under house arrest Bianet :: English Detained on December 12, the owners of three YouTube channels posting street interviews Arif Kocabıyık, Hasan Köksoy and Turan Kural have been released to house arrest. An international travel ban has been imposed on the three Three YouTubers detained in dawn raid over "cyber … Read more
I had missed that there was a lead on the origin of the money being laundered through Twitch. https://t.co/6cQhl3y5MY — Özge Kâtip (@OzgeKatip) November 5, 2021 Most stuff is in Turkish but the quoted Twitter above sums up the part about money laundering aspects… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCI95Tv-bo
Dear Metin Cihan is the best representative of citizen journalism at the moment in Turkey. He is releasing leaked documents from the Turkish Youth Foundation, TÜGVA, an Istanbul-based youth and student foundation. Bilal Erdoğan, son of President of the Republic of Turkey leads the foundation. Mr. Cihan was careful to take care of private personal … Read more
Freedom House report: Turkey is not free on the net Bianet :: English Turkey is the country with the fastest decline in internet freedom, according to Gürkan Özturan, the rapporteur for Turkey. The report here Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe: Release Demirtaş and Kavala Bianet :: English The Committee of Ministers of the Council of … Read more
Turkish 4th most widely used language in web content across globe: Report Hurriyet Daily News We Are Social, the world’s largest and most awarded social media agency, has made its social media and internet report for 2021 public, which showed that Turkish topped “the common languages used for website content” list. Link to the report
Turkey’s plans for new social media restrictions threaten five years in prison for spreading fake news Al-Monitor … moment it’s quite ambiguous, but I think its mission is to intimidate social media users,” said Erkan Saka, head of media at Istanbul Bilgi University. Report: Turkey to establish a ‘social media regulator’ to prevent ‘terror of lies’ Bianet … Read more
Apple removes Hornet queer social network app from AppStore Turkey Bianet :: English Apple has removed the Hornet queer social network from AppStore Turkey “upon a court ruling.” Hornet has announced that it is trying to solve the problem in talks with the courts in Turkey and Apple. In other news: Why Turkey’s Regulators Became Such … Read more
Turkey’s labourers take to TikTok to show millions their harsh work conditions – video World news: Turkey Workers in Turkish factories, construction sites and fields have become the unlikely stars of TikTok, revealing harsh and dangerous conditions in posts with millions of views. Turkey, ranked among the ’10 worst countries in the world for workers’, is … Read more
Turkey records highest number of inmates, detainees in Europe in 2020 – CoE | A total of 984 out of every 100,000, or 0.98 percent, of Turkey’s population were either in prison Report: Turkey among top three countries in violence towards women journalists in May Bianet :: English The Coalition For Women In Journalism has released its monthly … Read more
Mob boss implicates Turkish ministers in drug trafficking, assassination of journalist | Ahval SEDAT PEKER VIDEOS: Hadi, Süleyman Özışık dismissed following Soylu’s criminal complaint Bianet :: English After Interior Minister Soylu filed a criminal complaint in the wake of two videos posted by Peker, Hadi Özışık has been dismissed NEW VIDEO BY SEDAT PEKER: Peker says … Read more
Boğaziçi academics released ‘damage assessment report’ | Ahval The academics of Boğaziçi University released a report addressing problems that emerged following… In other news: The rise and fall of Clubhouse in Turkey Global Voices Online by Arzu Geybullayeva After a brief period of popularity among opposition activists, pro-Erdoğan figures have now flooded the app Screenshot from the website … Read more
I have recently read The Red Web. It is a sad story of how Putin gradually controlled internet communications within Russia. The gradual process reminded what we have encountered back in Turkey. In Turkish autocrats’ discourse, Turkey aims to create a China-like situation but I believe more and more that they had just followed Putin’s … Read more
Facebook and Google already caved into Turkey’s arbitrary and increasingly repressive internet legislation. I was not expecting Twitter to do that as it doesn’t seem to profit as much as Google and Facebook do. However, Twitter remains to be one of the few open channels for many of us and so by this move Turkey … Read more