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11 August 2024, Sunday / Published in Economy, Life, Politics

Why Instagram was blocked and unblocked in Türkiye?

On the morning of August 2, millions of Turkish users found that Instagram had been blocked. By 9:30 PM on August 10, access to the platform was restored. However, the reasons for the block, and the circumstances leading to its lifting, remain shrouded in mystery. One popular theory suggests that the ban was triggered by
16 January 2023, Monday / Published in Politics

Türkiye’s state-sponsored Aktrolls: A threat to election security

Türkiye’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) parliamentary chair Özgür Özel on January 12 revealed some documents showing a link between government officials and social media troll accounts in a press conference. And once again, the allegedly state-sponsored social media accounts called “Aktrolls” have become a political issue. Özel stated that said that “a troll
21 February 2022, Monday / Published in Life

Metaverse is a LifeBuoy

Early this month, I attended the meeting of Turkish IT NGOs. It is a group that gets together every month for more than a decade to maintain “solidarity in the IT sector” In the last meeting, someone in the group approached me and said, “shall we talk about the Metaverse, though I have no idea