Turkey moves to silence jailed Erdogan rival by blocking account on X

Turkey moves to silence jailed Erdogan rival by blocking account on X

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has relied on social media to stay in touch with supporters from jail.

Turkey: Lost in Translation on Substack

🎥 🇹🇷 Another Ban for İmamoğlu—This Time, His Voice So much for the “free speech absolutist.” Elon Musk’s X has now blocked access to the Twitter account of Ekrem İmamoğlu—the jailed Mayor of Istanbul and presidential contender. The account has been withheld in Turkey. In response, Turkish users aren’t staying quiet: boycott calls are spreading, and many have changed their profile pictures to images of İmamoğlu in a wave of digital defiance. …

X blocks access to jailed Istanbul mayor's account after Turkey request, group says

A platform monitoring internet censorship says access to jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s X social media account has been blocked in Turkey