14/09/2026
: MORE SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS BLOCKED AFTER TURKEY LGBTQ RAIDS
Turkish authorities have intensified online restrictions, blocking several X and Instagram accounts belonging to rights and media groups following sweeping police raids on LGBTQ organizations and gay bars.
The crackdown, described by officials as a campaign to promote “family values,” saw dozens detained nationwide on Sunday. Watchdog Ifod reported that accounts of Amnesty International Turkey, the Evrensel newspaper, Academics for Peace, and the Media and Law Studies Association were among those disabled.
Over the weekend, X also suspended more than a dozen LGBTQ rights groups, including Kaos GL and lawyer Levent Pişkin, underscoring the scale of digital censorship accompanying physical raids.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has repeatedly branded LGBTQ activism as “deviant,” fueling concerns among rights defenders that Turkey is escalating its suppression of dissent by silencing both voices on the ground and platforms online.