Obscenity investigation blocks access to 184 social media accounts in Turkey
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- A criminal judgeship in Istanbul ordered access to 184 X and Instagram accounts blocked during an obscenity investigation.
- The ruling also ordered the removal of content considered obscene from those accounts.
- The blocked accounts reportedly include several people known on social media.
Access to 184 X and Instagram accounts has been blocked in Turkey as part of an obscenity investigation led by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Bureau requested both access restrictions and the removal of content from the accounts under investigation. A criminal judgeship reviewed the request and approved the measures.
The accounts were identified as containing material considered obscene. The list reportedly includes several names known on social media, including Esra Rabia Ünal, Fidan Atalay, Elif Karaaslan, Ayşe Çelik, Gizem Bağdaçiçek, Ebru Arman, Alya Vural, Zeynep Çağış, Berilşah, Mika, Slowana, Wettpolly and Ben Zelal.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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