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Turkey's Digital Iron Curtain Erased Nearly 3,000 News Articles in 2018

Turkey’s Digital Iron Curtain Erased Nearly 3,000 News Articles in 2018

News EditorBy News EditorFebruary 20, 2019 Turkey Reports 2 Mins Read

The Erdoğan government’s systematic effort to control the public narrative and silence dissent reached staggering new heights in 2018, with Turkish authorities censoring at least 2,950 online news articles, effectively erasing them from the digital record, according to a comprehensive new media monitoring report.

This alarming figure reveals only a fraction of a multi-front assault on the free flow of information. The state’s censorship machine worked relentlessly throughout the year, also blocking access to 77 tweets, 22 Facebook posts, and 10 entire websites. Major platforms that served as a source of independent knowledge, most notably Wikipedia, remained entirely banned, plunging the country further into an information vacuum.

This digital purge is the backdrop to a brutal, physical crackdown on journalists themselves. The report confirms that Turkey greeted 2019 with 123 journalists behind bars, cementing its status as the world’s largest jailer of the press. Of those imprisoned, 47 have been convicted, while 34 are still navigating a judicial system widely criticized for its lack of fairness. The charges are almost uniformly political, with journalists accused of “terrorism” for their reporting on opposition movements or government-critical topics.

The pressure extends far beyond the prison walls. In 2018 alone:

  • At least 47 reporters were detained, with the majority targeted while covering sensitive issues related to Turkey’s Kurdish minority.
  • 19 journalists and one media organization were physically attacked, a terrifying reminder of the dangers of reporting in a climate where critics are branded as traitors.
  • 70 journalists and four media outlets received direct threats, part of a coordinated campaign of intimidation.
  • At least 20 journalists were convicted for “insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,” a law that has been weaponized to crush any form of criticism. They were sentenced to a collective 38 years in prison.

These are not the statistics of a functioning democracy. They are the metrics of an authoritarian state systematically dismantling a free press. This reality is reflected in Turkey’s dismal ranking of 157th out of 180 countries in the 2018 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders. The numbers do not lie. Turkey’s government is not just censoring the news; it is jailing, threatening, and attacking the messengers in a desperate, all-out effort to control reality itself.

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