The Directorate of Telecommunication and Communication was
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
's
telecom authority prior to being shut down in August 2016. The organization's acronym in Turkish "TIB" had become synonymous for internet censorship by the time of closure due to its appearance on tens of thousands of
internet block pages. It was part of the
Information and Communication Technologies Authority
The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) ( tr, Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu (BTK)), is a national telecommunications regulatory and inspection authority of Turkey. It was formerly known as the Telecommunications ...
, which is now directly responsible for duties previously tasked to the directorate.
Its 2014 blocking of
Twitter
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was ruled to be
unconstitutional
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.
Turkey's Twitter ban violates free speech: constitutional court
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See also
* Internet regulation in Turkey
Internet regulation in Turkey is primarily authorized under the Electronic Communications Law (ECL) and the Internet Act and carried out by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA).
In 2018, the Turkish parliament passed a ...
References
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Communications authorities
2005 establishments in Turkey
2016 disestablishments in Turkey
Regulation in Turkey