EU Council Requested Information from Turkey on Access Bans

Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) The meeting of deputy ministers responsible for implementing the decisions was held between 5-7 December.

According to the news shared by Freewebturkey, after the meeting where many ECHR cases were discussed, the committee also included the case of Ahmet Yıldırım group regarding internet bans in Turkey on its agenda.

All Information Regarding Access Blocking Decisions Is Requested

Committee, the case “Due to laws that allow complete blocking of websites, applicants freedom of expression about the violation of your rightsStating that “, the committee requested information from Turkish authorities about the domain names that were access blocked.

In the last three years, Turkish authorities Law No. 5651 Based on Article 8, they requested to share statistical and detailed information about the domain name access blocking decisions they made. In the committee decision, “The authorities have been responsible for all work in the last three years.access to websites We invite you to share statistical or other available information showing general trends in the number of decisions taken to prevent it, together with other sample decisions, by the end of December 2024.” expressions were used. The committee pointed out the blocking of domain names with the phrase “all websites” here. It was also pointed out that there was no need for other individual measures for the current cases.

Media and Legal Studies Association (MLSA)had made a notification to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe about the Ahmet Yıldırım Group case. I’ve only ever received this call before Ekşi Sözlük The answer was given using an example and it was stated that access to the dictionary could be accessed through applications such as VPN and that it did not prevent access. Turkey to deliver these documents. 1 year It has time.