Journalist Fatih Altaylı wrote an article about the closure of Ekşi Sözlük. In the article, it was claimed that Ekşi Sözlüğü accepted to make the power trolls writers. Ekşi Sözlük CEO Başak Purut responded to these allegations.
which is one of the most visited sites in Turkey. Sour DictionaryAccess was blocked by the Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) with a sudden decision on February 21. While it was stated that the decision was made pursuant to Article 8/A of Law No. 5651, Ekşi Sözlük management stated that no content was cited as a basis for this decision.
Today the journalist Fatih Altayli, wrote an article expressing his ideas about the closure of Ekşi Sözlük, which caused great controversy in Habertürk. Başak Purut, CEO of Ekşi Sözlük, also responded to this article.
“It is unacceptable to prevent any broadcasting organization from broadcasting by administrative pressure.
Altaylı started by saying that it is unacceptable for any broadcasting organization to block the broadcast by administrative pressure. In the continuation years ago, he sued the dictionary for slander and defamatory criticism. stated. Stating that he did not have a goal of closing it, Altaylı stated that he wanted those who wrote them to be held accountable.
Afterwards, the famous journalist used the following statements:On the other hand, Ekşi Sözlük claimed that these were not their own ideas, but the ideas of their authors, while Ekşi Sözlük was just a platform. All of them did not reveal the identities of those who rained slanders and insults from the shadows using pseudonyms. They finally agreed to delete some of these entries.”
In the rest of the article, Altaylı attributed the problem in this situation to the fact that media such as Ekşi Sözlük do not assume any of the legal responsibilities assumed by the media.
“If Ekşi Sözlük and the likes accept that they are media organizations, I think there will be no problem.”
“Some new media, namely platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, are considered media organs. they don’t. In this way, they evade the legal responsibilities of media organs. As such, all kinds of insults, slander, slander, profanity, and disinformation against individuals or institutions are made here, and they do not establish a mechanism to prevent them and pass them through a legal filter.
In other words, they do not assume any of the legal responsibilities undertaken by the media. But they want to take full advantage of the constitutional rights granted to the media.”
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The famous journalist, towards the end of the article, followed by Ekşi Sözlük and its like. If they accept that they are a media organization, there will be no problem. added that he thought. He added that the barrier should be removed immediately.
Altaylı also claimed that Ekşi Sözlük brought in troll writers to overcome its problems with the government.
Finally, Altaylı claimed that Ekşi Sözlük has taken some approaches to overcome its problems with the government. He used the following statements on this subject:In order to overcome the problems with the power, Ekşi Sözlük has some writes the power troll had agreed to do it.”
Ekşi Sözlük CEO Başak Purut denied Altaylı’s allegations
Ekşi Sözlük CEO Başak Purut responded to this claim made by Altaylı at the end. Purut, in a statement on Twitter, said that there was a lot of wrong information in the article, while the subject of the troll writer was also mentioned. totally unrealistic reported that.
“Dear Fatih Altaylı, there is a lot of wrong information in your article about sour dictionary, but the most important part is ‘sour dictionary has agreed to make some power troll a writer in order to overcome the problems with the power’, because it is completely untrue.
I’m asking assuming that you won’t write anything without verifying it from several different sources: Did your sources inform you about basic issues such as who we talked to, what kind of agreement we made, why did we block it if we agreed? So please share, I’d like to know too.”
Fatih Altaylı has not yet received a response to this post of Purut.
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