Türkiye’de ciddi bir demokrasi krizi yaşanıyor. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın başında olduğu iktidar partisi tarafından sürekli olarak muhalif görüşler susturuluyor, muhalif televizyon kanalları kapatılıyor, gazeteciler hapse mahkum ediliyor, internetteki içerikler sansürleniyor ve Avrupa Birliği İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi kararlarının gereği yerine getirilmiyor. Kasım’da da kaleme aldığımız gibi, bu...

The world is taking an increasingly dim view of the misuses of technology and those who made their names (and fortunes) from them. In 2017, Silicon Valley companies were caught up in a ongoing trainwreck of scandals: biased algorithms, propaganda botnets, and extremist online organizing have dominated the media's headlines.But...

Turkish police officers in plainclothes yesterday raided a digital security training meeting on the island of Buyukuda in Istanbul, seizing equipment and detaining ten attendees­, including Idil Eser, the director of Amnesty International Turkey. The human rights defenders are still being held in separate detention centers, and were...

After a two-week ban on the website imposed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that the block breached freedom of expression. Access to Twitter was subsequently restored within the country.
The ban on Twitter drew widespread criticism both within and outside of Turkey....