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Internet restrictions in Turkey violate fundamental rights
After the major earthquake that took place in Turkey on 6 February, covering 10 provinces and a population of approximately 15 million, bandwidth restriction for social media platforms such as Twitter and Tiktok was implemented. Whenever the current government was criticised for not meeting its obligations, throttling was used as an option to filter and prevent the flow of information.
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Algorithmic persecution based on massive privacy violations used to justify human rights abuses, says new report
More than 13,000 Turkish military personnel have been dismissed since July 2016 on the basis of an algorithm used by the authorities to assess the alleged “terrorist” credentials or connections of military officers and their relatives in violation of multiple human rights, says a new report published today by Statewatch.
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Member in the Spotlight: Alternatif Bilişim Derneği
The Alternative Informatics Association (Turkish: Alternatif Bilişim Derneği, Alternatif Bilişim acronym) is a Turkey based civil society organisation focusing on the issues of media literacy, internet censorship and mass surveillance since 31 December 2010.
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Turkish civil society: Declaration on the state of the internet
On the occasion of the Internet Week (11-24 April 2019) and the 26th anniversary of the arrival of the internet in the country, Turkish civil society organisations focusing on digital rights have released a declaration on the state of the internet.
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Censoring Wikipedia in Turkey is censoring our collective knowledge
2018 will be a pivotal year for the internet.
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ePrivacy for Children: What is Data Protection Culture?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) attracted widespread attention and comment in recent weeks when it came into force on 25 May 2018. Having taken several years to get from being proposed by the European Commission to entering into force, the GDPR has been designed as a concerted, holistic and unifying effort to regulate personal […]
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State of emergency worsens digital crackdown in Turkey
According to a new report by Freedom House, web freedom across the globe declined for the sixth consecutive year. Turkey placed among the red-flag states in terms of web freedom in 2015-2016 and is now rated “not free” in “Freedom on the net 2016” report after repeated blocking of social media. The country’s status score […]
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Turkey: “The worst menace to society” helps to defeat the coup
On 15 July 2016, coup d’état attempt against the Turkish government took place. Although tension in Turkey gradually escalated in the first half of 2016, nobody expected a military coup. The news about the the blocking of the bridges over the Bosphorus strait quickly spread via social media at about 10 pm in the evening […]
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A new Regulation for closing down the internet in Turkey
A new telecom Regulation increases concerns about freedom of expression in Turkey. It redefines the power of the Turkish information and communication technologies authority (BTK). The Regulation was published on the Official Gazette issue 29739 on 11 June 2016. Item 10 of the Regulation is titled “Blocking the service and the suspension of the service […]
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The biggest data breach in Turkish history
About 50 million personal records of Turkish citizens have been made publicly available in a searchable database on the internet. Ironically, although the site that holds the database is open to the entire world, it is one of the 110,000 sites blocked by Turkish government and can only be accessed from Turkey via a virtual […]
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New data protection law in Turkey
Turkish Parliament enacted the Data Protection Law on 24 March 2016 and it entered into force on 7 April. There had been several attempts for enacting the Law over the course of more than 10 years, but all of the bills were later withdrawn by the AKP – Justice and Development Party (the ruling party […]
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Data protection bill in Turkish Parliament
Turkey does not have a data protection law, but since 2003 there have been numerous attempts to enact legislation in this area. The drafts of such bills have been criticised for not being in accordance with the contemporary approach to data protection. For example, the 2013 draft envisaged the establishment of a seven-member Data Protection […]
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