The Turkish authorities blocked , on Friday, three news websites opposing the government of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, one of them was blocked for the 63rd time.
The Turkish Information Technology Foundation blocked access to three news sites, namely Syndica, Mesopotamia Agency, and New Democracy, according to a report published by Al-Arabiya news website.
Previously, Turkey's authorities blocked access to the Syndica website 62 times, the last time was in December 2018, by entering the IT Foundation’s decision to block access to the site again, bringing the total of the decisions issued against this site to 63 blocking decisions.
In this context, the Syndica website published a statement saying, “The Constitutional Court tells us to open the site, while the Magistrate’s Court closes it.”
“Our site has been closed 63 times,” the statement read.
It added that “Now we are publishing on the Syndica website 64, again, after the decision of the second court in Gaziantep, On September 30, 2020. Access to our page has been blocked for the 63rd time, and we have started publishing again on a new site."
The Free Expression Association confirmed in its statistics last year that Turkey's authorities had blocked more than 80,000 websites until 2015, but this number doubled, during the period from 2015 to October 2019, to more than 288,000 websites.
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