TikTok Turkey Officials in Parliament: Here are the Highlights

The most popular social media platform of recent times Managers of TikTok in charge of Turkeymade a presentation to the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) Digital Media Commission. TikTok delegation consisting of 3 people gave information about their work in Turkey in 2021. One of the issues mentioned by the authorities was tax. According to the statements made, TikTok will be fully deployed to Turkey in 2021. 93 million TL tax paid.

TikTok’s Public Policy and Public Relations Manager responsible for Turkey and some regions Farah Tukan, Public Policy Manager for TikTok Turkey Incoming Order and TikTok Public Policy Advisor Naz DeğirmenciIt was announced that in the first half of 2021, 250 posts from Turkey were removed and 11 accounts that violated the community principles were detected. Let’s look at the details of the statements made together.

250 content shared from Turkey has been removed

In a presentation made by TikTok Turkey Public Policy Manager Emir Gelen, the contents in TikTok were mentioned. Emir Gelen, who prefers to give numbers, January 2021 to June 2021 He gave the following information about the content traded in the range:

• Total reported content demand: 270
• Content for which action is taken due to violation of legislation: 250
• Total received account request: 20
• Content that takes action for violation of community guidelines: 16
• Account for which action is taken due to violation of community principles: 11th
• Account for which action is taken due to violation of legislation: 7
• Inactive content: 4
• Account without action: 2nd

In other statements made by Emir Gelen, it is stated that the contents why and how to remove also announced. These statements included the following statements: Violent extremism, hateful behavior, illegal activity and regulated products, violent imagery, suicide, self-harm and normalizing dangerous actions no content is hosted on the platform. We are against any sharing that threatens harassment and bullying, adult nudity and sexual activity, child safety, integrity and freedom, integrity and originality of the platform, and we do not allow them.

“We protect the data of users in Turkey”

TikTok Middle East, Turkey, Africa and Pakistan Regions Public Policy and Public Relations Manager Farah Tukan On the other hand, he made statements about the security, legal compliance and prevention of false information in TikTok. The statements made by Farah Tukan are as follows;

We know the work of the Turkish government online to ensure the safety of the Turkish people. we this too on security We are doing our best.

Everyone who uses TikTok has to follow the rules, and these rules are universal. against those who do not comply we take a tough stance. We do not hesitate and do not hesitate to take every precaution. We make great efforts to ensure that the content offered is compliant with our policies. TikTok provides our community with a variety of tools and an extensive network of helpful materials. We have a security center and Turkish language is also available here. We also continue to make various investments towards new paths. On the other hand, we continue to strive to maintain the trust of each of our users when they open TikTok. We publish regularly transparency they have reports and within this framework, information is shared about the volume and characteristics of the content that violates the rules, and the removal of various content and sharing it with law enforcement officers are also shared here. In addition, misinformation and disinformation We also know how important it is for the Republic of Turkey.. We block any content that may mislead our users. TikTok works with experts. We are actively working to prevent false and misleading information from being included in the application. For example, misleading information about Covid-19 we do not publish…