The Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) published its Censorship Bulletin for the week of 26 October–1 November 2026. According to the bulletin, access was blocked on 26 October to at least 31 X accounts, including those of journalists Birsen Altuntaş and Erk Acarer, under Article 8/A of Law No. 5651. The authorities issuing the decisions and the decision numbers were not disclosed; as of 26 October, X had not yet made the accounts unavailable in Türkiye. Instagram made the accounts of the Socialist Refoundation Party’s headquarters and Istanbul provincial organization unavailable in Türkiye on the same day. Istanbul 10th Criminal Judgeship of Peace blocked access to Yeni Yaşam newspaper’s yeniyasamgazetesi9.com address in its decision dated 31 October and numbered 2026/11556, bringing the number of the newspaper’s blocked domains to 10. Administrators of the @milletsahidim account, which shared excerpts from Ekrem İmamoğlu’s book Millet Şahidimdir, also announced that access had been blocked by a court order during the night of 31 October–1 November. Özlem Altınok Öz’s YouTube channel with 7.9 million subscribers and Instagram account with 4.3 million followers were blocked on 28 October following an application by the Family and Social Services Ministry over posts concerning her son’s circumcision. MLSA took the access block on its own X account to the Constitutional Court on 28 October. The association argued that the problematic post had not been identified and that blocking the entire account was disproportionate, requesting priority review, retrial and restoration of access to the account.
2 November 2026
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