{"id":98864,"date":"2026-06-03T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/98864\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:51:21","slug":"turkish-court-orders-block-on-pro-opposition-newspapers-x-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/98864\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish court orders block on pro-opposition newspaper&#8217;s X account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cumhuriyet.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"696\" height=\"398\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cumhuriyet.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"cumhuriyet\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Turkish court has ordered an access block on the X account of Cumhuriyet, one of Turkey\u2019s most prominent newspapers, according to the Freedom of Expression Association (\u0130F\u00d6D), a digital rights group.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"tr\" dir=\"ltr\">Cumhuriyet Gazetesi&#8217;nin X hesab\u0131 (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cumhuriyetgzt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cumhuriyetgzt<\/a>), Elaz\u0131\u011f 2. Sulh Ceza Hakimli\u011finin 29 Nisan 2026 tarihli ve 2026\/2312 say\u0131l\u0131 karar\u0131yla, mill\u00ee g\u00fcvenlik ve kamu d\u00fczeninin korunmas\u0131 gerek\u00e7esiyle eri\u015fime engellendi. Hesap, X taraf\u0131ndan T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;den g\u00f6r\u00fcnmez k\u0131l\u0131nmad\u0131. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9edJujn0ly\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/9edJujn0ly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EngelliWeb (@engelliweb) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/engelliweb\/status\/2061806188040233111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u0130F\u00d6D, which monitors internet censorship in Turkey, said Wednesday that the order was issued April 29 by the 2nd Criminal Magistrate of Peace in the eastern province of Elaz\u0131\u011f. The group said the court cited risks to national security and public order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cumhuriyet, whose X account has some 3.5 million followers, said it was monitoring reports concerning the decision and did not immediately provide additional details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after the ruling was made public on Wednesday, the newspaper changed its X username from @cumhuriyetgzt to @cumhuriyetgzt1. EngelliWeb, a censorship-tracking platform operated by \u0130F\u00d6D, said another account subsequently adopted the vacated @cumhuriyetgzt username but was later suspended by X. The reason for the suspension was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u0130F\u00d6D said X had not made the newspaper\u2019s account inaccessible in Turkey as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 1924, Cumhuriyet is Turkey\u2019s oldest newspaper and has long been associated with secular and opposition political views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The order comes amid a wider wave of social media restrictions in Turkey. The Media and Law Studies Association said at least 49 social media accounts belonging to journalists and news outlets had been blocked in Turkey since January, while \u0130F\u00d6D said Turkish authorities blocked 126 X accounts, including those of news outlets and journalists, in a single February 2025 decision citing national security and the public order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey, which remains one of the world\u2019s leading jailers of journalists, according to press freedom organizations, dropped to 159th out of 180 countries in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in early May.<\/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 ordered an access block on the X account of Cumhuriyet, one of Turkey\u2019s most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[422,423,51009,425,426,312,427,428,429,26739,431,131,132,51010,155,13882],"class_list":["post-98864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-ak-party","tag-akp","tag-cumhuriyet-daily","tag-democracy","tag-erdogan","tag-human-rights","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-oppression","tag-reporters-without-borders-rsf","tag-rule-of-law","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-the-freedom-of-expression-association-ifod","tag-turkey","tag-x"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116686742506151558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98864","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=98864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}