Turkey Blocks X Account of British Reporter - Turkish Minute
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Sky News reporter Alex Crawford's X account has been made invisible from Turkey following a court order related to an "obscenity" investigation. The wave of censorship has spread to foreign journalists: Sky News reporter Alex Crawford's account has been shut down. (Medyascope)
The repression of freedom of expression in the media is escalating - The accounts blocked in 1 month have exceeded the total of the entire previous year
The account of British Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford on the X platform, formerly Twitter, became inaccessible in Turkey on Monday (5/10). More...
Turkey blocks X account of British reporter - Turkish Minute
Turkish authorities have blocked the X account of a journalist for the British Sky News broadcaster she said on Monday, in the latest wave of social media censorship that a rights group has denounced as a “tsunami.” Alex Crawford told Agence France-Presse she had been notified by X that her account was being blocked in […]
ekritiERT NEWSAccess to the X account of British Sky News correspondent in Turkey Alex Crawford was blocked today, she confirmed to AFP, as part of a campaign that a human rights organization describes as a "wave of censorship that has become a tsunami."
Within the scope of the "obscenity" investigation, the X account of Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford (@AlexCrawfordSky), which was among the accounts blocked by the Bakırköy 4th Magistrates' Court's decision dated September 13, 2026, and numbered 2026/9112, was made invisible from Turkey by X on October 5, 2026. The article about Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford's X account first appeared on the Freedom of Expression Association.
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