Twitter has changed its method and language significantly to rein in Turkey’s pro-government networks, widely known as trolls, six years after the government’s first operation triggered a ban by the Turkish government.Turkey slammed Twitter on June 12 for suspending thousands of accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdoğan as part of a wider crackdown on what
Twitter has shut down some 7,340 accounts in Turkey, discussing that they were “state-linked information operations.” “We’re disclosing new state-linked information operations to our public archive — the only one of its kind in the industry. Originating from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Russia, and Turkey, all associated accounts and content have been removed,”
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan was live on Turkey’s public broadcaster TRT on the night of June 8, 2020. Erdoğan was delighted when the moderator asked her pre-ordered question about his telephone call with Trump a few hours ago. According to Erdoğan, upon hearing Turkey’s coronavirus statistics, Trump had said “wow” in surprise. They then spoke
It was the beginning of March. It looked as though all the world’s celebrities had contracted COVID-19. England’s Prince Charles, Iran’s Parliamentary President Ali Larijani, Hollywood’s Tom Hanks, and Turkey’s millionaire football coach Fatih Terim, aka Emperor, all had it. The list went on. People expressed their sadness. But in the meantime, statements like “this
Turkey implemented a partial lockdown to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. These limited measures, which kept majority of businesses open, which kept majority of businesses open, managed to avoid more adverse outcomes that could have been expected. Could Turkey have done better in those three months? Yes, we probably could have. If stricter measures were put
At the moment, all eyes are on the demonstrations in the USA and the course of the COVID epidemic. But Hong Kong has been hosting similar protests every weekend for months. Moreover, they are struggling against the Chinese administration, which has no regard for human rights. They are fighting against the Chinese police force, face
According to MetroPoll research company’s May 2020 study titled “Turkey’s Pulse,” the Turkish political scene has eventful days ahead. The company measures the popularity of politicians as well as the votes of the parties every month. According to the latest survey showing March 2020 results, President Tayyip Erdoğan had grown in popularity when COVID-19 first
January 2020 was a turning point in terms of Turkish-Italian relations. It would soon become clear that this wasn’t limited to diplomatic relations. We now learned that the two countries were conducting a joint intelligence operation amid the COVID-19 epidemic. Nevertheless, the most evident aspect, at the time, had to do with diplomacy. Because before
The majority of the restrictions applied for more than two months due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak got lifted on June 1. Parliament will remain open until the end of July, so for about two months. There’s a fundamental question here. Will the legislation proposals brought to Parliament during this time aim to recover the
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