Global Media law in Turkey
Media Laws can be described as restrictions that are put upon countries, states, nations, and etc. regarding how and what they present things to the media. The United States Citizens' are so lucky because of the different rights that they have as ‘US Citizens: like the Freedom of the Press Act, Telecommunication Law, Privacy Act, and many more.
A lot of countries have totalitarianism, communism, Monarchy, Oligarchy, and a few more. Some of the listed rulers provide their citizens with little to no say on who is to be elected, restrictions on how many children they can conceive, or even how they can wear their hair.
This goes to the media where the ‘freedom of speech users’ (US Citizens) freely speak out on behalf of the silenced, who either create change, get someone harshly punished, or sadly die. Please be grateful for the power that you have and do not overuse it!
Turkey’s Media Revision
In late 2022, Turkey’s authority decided to revise its law on what content can be made regarding any matters that are happening in Turkey. The revision pushed by Turkish President ‘Recep Tayyin Erdogan’, will silence the use of any opposition, opinions, or disagreements made by civilians in Turkey.
They also pushed for different social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to be banned by the higher authority when someone steps out of line with narratives that don’t fit Turkish customs. The unlawful individuals are punished for four to five years in a penal institution. Though at the time the citizens were not worried about these new regulations being put into play, after much thought, it is believed that this new ruling will be put into place during election time in 2023.
Turkey has even gone to the lengths to say that those said charges can be seen as the expulsion of putting people at risk by telling the public about health, safety, and anything else in that spectrum.
Social Media
It would be thought that Turkey stopped their demise on the citizens' media rights after the first push, but they decided to take it further by making users give up their privacy of WhatsApp regarding ‘assumed lies’ made online about the Country.
Not to mention, earlier it was also said that Facebook and as well as Twitter individual accounts would be more so hacked by authorities if any foul play was assumed to be made.
This is not the first time that Turkish authority has tried to ban social media in Turkey, but instead, they did in 2014, according to amp.theguardian.com when a private conversation was exposed on the platform. They even attempted to block Twitter for similar reasons and it was denied by the courts.
Ultimately, Turkey has a very strict hand on its citizens and any mishap will lead to imprisonment, or the cutting-off of a media outlet. After much research, Turkey isn’t known for killings dealing with the media as much as other countries so in hindsight that is alright.
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