Turkey’s recent crackdown on its LGBTQ+ community and the media continued this week with the shutdown of one of the country’s leading independent news websites.
On Wednesday, Turkey’s justice ministry said it had shut down the website and social media accounts of T24 for what it called “LGBT propaganda,” Agence France-Presse reports
Just blocked it? So it’s still online and trivial to access? Cool.
Edit: no, title was misleading. It was shutdown
shutdown of one of the country’s leading independent news website
Anyway, they just have to move hosting to Germany. Shouldn’t take but a few days to re launch.
Edit2: idk, this contradicts again
T24’s foreign news desk editor Buse Sogutlu confirmed to AFP that the outlet’s entire website — not just its coverage of LGBTQ+ issues — has been blocked in Turkey
Amazingly, this entire article doesn’t provide one link to the website in question. Terrible journalism
Edit3: this might be it, but hard to confirm
