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Turkish Internet Law

legislation in Turkey

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ20471425 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Turkish Internet Law, formally the Law on Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed by Means of Such Publication was passed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on May 4, 2007. It was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Turkey as Law No. 5651 on May 23, 2007.

An expansion was approved in 2014, but was overturned by a court within a month. The law was invoked during the 2017-2020 block of Wikipedia. A major 2020 revision put further regulations on social media.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Turkish Internet Law” as legislation in Turkey. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2014, 2017, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Turkish, Internet and legislation can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as legislation in Turkey. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20471425. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2014, 2017 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Turkish Internet Law” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.