Gianna Iacino
Since 27 January 2017, the Turkish Authority for Information Technology (BTK) blocks the access to a not yet operational website.
Can Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of the Turkish newspaper “Cumhuriyet” launched the website Özgürüz (“We are free”) together with the non-profit research centre corrective and the Turkish journalist Hayko Bagdat. The website operators work in Berlin, Germany. They are planning to report critically about current events – inter alia – related to press freedom developments in Turkey. The website will be in German and Turkish language.
Before the website was operational and had any content, BTK blocked access to the…
