Turkey Blocks Content Concerning Graft on Independent News Site

Turkish regulators (BTK) ordered the removal or restriction of multiple investigative articles on the independent news outlet Kısa Dalga, targeting reporting on corruption, organized crime, and politically sensitive municipal probes; digital rights group FreeWebTurkey documented over a thousand blocking orders and thousands of restricted URLs in the first seven months of 2025, noting disproportionate impacts on independent media and civil society. Despite Constitutional Court decisions striking down certain content-blocking provisions and limiting BTK’s unilateral authority, the report characterizes censorship as routine and increasingly harmful to journalism and public discourse.