{"id":6820,"date":"2026-02-09T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:27:10","slug":"turkey-blocks-x-account-of-pro-kurdish-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/6820\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey blocks X account of pro-Kurdish party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Keskin-Bayindir.webp\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Keskin Bay\u0131nd\u0131r\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Keskin-Bayindir-696x464.webp.webp\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Keskin-Bayindir-696x464.webp.webp\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Keskin Bay\u0131nd\u0131r\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Turkish court has blocked the X account of lawmaker Keskin Bay\u0131nd\u0131r, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), the \u0130lke TV news website <a href=\"https:\/\/ilketv.com.tr\/dbp-es-genel-baskani-keskin-bayindirin-x-hesabina-erisim-engeli\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the Turkish authorities nor the social media platform has given any explanation for the decision. Bay\u0131nd\u0131r criticized the ban as interference with the will of the people and said it suppresses freedom of thought and expression.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"tr\" dir=\"ltr\">Kulland\u0131\u011f\u0131m X (Twitter) hesab\u0131n\u0131n BTK ve mahkeme karar\u0131yla eri\u015fime engellenmesi, yaln\u0131zca \u015fahs\u0131ma de\u011fil, halk\u0131n iradesine ve ifade \u00f6zg\u00fcrl\u00fc\u011f\u00fcne y\u00f6nelik bir m\u00fcdahaledir.<\/p>\n<p>Bu t\u00fcr uygulamalar; se\u00e7ilmi\u015f temsilcileri, bas\u0131n ve medya kurulu\u015flar\u0131n\u0131, gazetecileri ve toplumun her kesimini\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keskin Bay\u0131nd\u0131r (@KeskinBayindir_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeskinBayindir_\/status\/2019777747254399047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bay\u0131nd\u0131r announced that he will continue posting on a new account, @KeskinBayindir_ .<\/p>\n<p>Bay\u0131nd\u0131r was detained and later <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkey-arrests-pro-kurdish-party-co-chair-provincial-head-on-terrorism-charges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> in December 2022 during simultaneous raids on DBP offices and other locations across 10 provinces. He was charged with \u201cmembership in an armed terrorist organization,\u201d referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies. After spending three months in jail, he was released pending trial at his first hearing in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In May the PKK announced that it would lay down its arms to pursue a democratic struggle to defend the rights of the Kurdish minority, in line with a call by its jailed leader Abdullah \u00d6calan. The Turkish Parliament in August established a special\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/parliamentary-body-receives-only-summary-of-turkish-lawmakers-meeting-with-pkk-leader\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parliamentary commission<\/a>\u00a0to oversee the peace efforts. However, Kurdish civil society groups\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/rights-groups-urge-turkish-parliamentary-commission-to-push-reforms-protecting-kurds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">argue<\/a>\u00a0that structural reforms safeguarding fundamental rights have yet to be implemented, raising concerns about the sincerity and scope of any efforts at normalization.<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Turkish court has blocked the X account of lawmaker Keskin Bay\u0131nd\u0131r, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[5881,5882,5883,312,5884,429,5885,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-6820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-blocked-accounts-on-x","9":"tag-democratic-regions-party-dbp","10":"tag-freedom-of-thought","11":"tag-human-rights","12":"tag-keskin-bayindir","13":"tag-oppression","14":"tag-social-media-restrictions","15":"tag-stockholm","16":"tag-sweden","17":"tag-turkey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}