Mon 21 February 2022:
According to the Diken news site, Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog has begun a 72-hour window for three international news agencies to obtain an operating license or face access blocks to their platforms.
The German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, Voice of America, and Euronews all have Turkish language websites that are affected by the three-day deadline.
According to Diken, Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) requires the three agencies to file a broadcast license, which was imposed after RTÜK was given expanded powers in 2019.
The RTÜK board, which is dominated by President Recep Tayyip Erdoan’s Justice and Development Party, has been chastised for exercising broad control over all online content, which it also has the power to remove.
RTÜK opposition member lhan Taşç took to Twitter to say that the watchdog would file a court application to block access to agencies that had failed to apply for licensing.
RTÜK’ün https://t.co/B2HDmVmqD4 https://t.co/tD90ZaXRRk ve https://t.co/d2d99KotM4 sitelerinin lisan almarına ilişkin kararlar siteye yüklendi.Kuruluşlar için tanınan 72 saatlik süre işlemeye başladı.
RTÜK, başvurmayan sitelerin erişimlerinin engellenmesini mahkemeden isteyecek.— İlhan Taşcı (@ilhantasci) February 21, 2022
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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