{"id":59,"date":"2014-03-27T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=59"},"modified":"2014-04-01T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:44:31","slug":"censorship-of-social-media-platforms-must-stop-in-turkey-says-osce-media-freedom-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Censorship of social media platforms must stop in Turkey, says OSCE media freedom representative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">VIENNA, 27 March 2014 \u2013 By blocking access to social media platforms Turkey deliberately disregards the fundamental right to freedom of expression and freedom of the media, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media said today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/OSCE-Dunja-Mijatovic-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60\" alt=\"Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/OSCE-Dunja-Mijatovic-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/OSCE-Dunja-Mijatovic-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/OSCE-Dunja-Mijatovic-1-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/OSCE-Dunja-Mijatovic-1.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWithin one week, access to Twitter and YouTube has been blocked in Turkey,\u201d Mijatovi\u0107 said. \u201cA regulator exercising censorship by blocking is unacceptable in democracies, and it breaches numerous OSCE and other international standards that Turkey has committed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 27 March Turkey\u2019s telecommunications authority (TIB) blocked YouTube in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI call on the authorities to preserve the free flow of information and media freedom both online and offline, and immediately restore access to YouTube. I also urge TIB to reinstate Twitter services without delay following yesterday\u2019s court decision annulling the ban on the website,\u201d Mijatovi\u0107 said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement of the Representative on banning Twitter in Turkey can be accessed at www.osce.org\/fom\/116682.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media observes media developments in all 57 OSCE participating States. She provides early warning on violations of freedom of expression and media freedom and promotes full compliance with OSCE media freedom commitments. Learn more at www.osce.org\/fom, Twitter: @OSCE_RFoM and on facebook.com\/osce.rfom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>VIENNA, 27 March 2014 \u2013 By blocking access to social media platforms Turkey deliberately disregards the fundamental right to freedom of expression and freedom of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=59\" title=\"Censorship of social media platforms must stop in Turkey, says OSCE media freedom representative\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","category-turkey-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}