Ekşi Sözlük, one of Turkey’s most important internet platforms, has been closed once again. The site continues to serve from its new address.
One of the oldest and largest internet channels in our country Ekşi Sözlük, has been blocked from access many times before. Finally, access to the site was blocked once again with the decision taken by the Ankara 6th Criminal Court of Peace, citing “protection of national security and public order”.
Ekşi Sözlük Following the decision, officials also announced the new address of the site. From now on, those who want to access the site will use the address eskisozluk111.com.
Ekşi Sözlük, which has encountered similar situations before, has been blocked from access many times this year.
- Access was blocked by BTK decision on February 21.
- On February 22, Ankara 4th Criminal Judgeship of Peace passed the access decision.
- The obstacle was removed upon the objection made by Ekşi Sözlük on March 2.
- BTK also objected to this decision, Ankara 5th Criminal Court of Peace accepted this objection and blocked access again.
- Following this decision, on May 13, the site was renamed eskisozluk2023.com. Ankara 6th Criminal Court of Peace He also blocked this site.
- Site management 2 days later eskisozluk42.com took the domain name.
- Access was blocked by Ankara 8th Criminal Court of Peace.
- on December 14 The current address of the site, eskisozluk1923.com, was blocked from access by Ankara 6th Criminal Court of Peace.
- Last but not least By BTK decision access to eskisozluk1999.com has been blocked.
After the heartbreaking news of 12 martyrs Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Officelaunched an investigation against users who made some controversial comments on the site. It is unknown whether the decision is related to this investigation. In the statement made by Ekşi Sözlük management, it was stated that they did not have information about the details of the decision and that they would share information as they received it.
Previously requested an explanation from Turkey regarding the blocking of Ekşi Sözlük’s access. MLSA and Free Web TurkeyIt was told that the site was not blocked and that access to the site continued from another address. With the final decision, that domain name was blocked just ten days later.