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Turkiye Blocks X Accounts of LGBTQ+ Activists

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Accounts of more than a dozen Turkish LGBTQ organizations have been blocked on the X social media platform at the request of authorities advocating traditional family values, a watchdog said on Saturday.

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The websites of KaosGL Association and Velvele, as well as numerous social media accounts belonging to LGBT+ organizations, activists, and human rights defenders, have been blocked by a decision of the Istanbul 7th Magistrates' Court. As part of the decision, 14 X accounts have been made invisible from Turkey, while the access ban on 11 Instagram accounts has not yet been implemented.

·Istanbul, Türkiye
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Access to the websites of KaosGL Association and Velvele, as well as the social media accounts of LGBT+ organizations, activists, and human rights defenders, has been blocked.

The social media accounts of KaosGL Association and numerous LGBT+ organizations and human rights advocates have been blocked by court order. Numerous LGBT+ organizations' websites and social media accounts have also been blocked. (Medyascope)

Journalist Yıldız Tar's account, along with numerous social media accounts drawing attention to LGBT+ rights, have been blocked.

·Ankara, Türkiye
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The websites of KaosGL Association (kaosgldernegi.org), Velvele (velvele.net), and numerous LGBT+ organizations' social media accounts were blocked by the Istanbul 7th Magistrates' Court's decision dated September 12, 2026, and numbered 2026/9559. Among those whose accounts were blocked are lawyer and human rights defender Levent Pişkin, actress and trans rights activist Seyhan Arman, theater actress and LGBT+ activist […] The article about the …

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İfade Özgürlüğü Derneği broke the news on Saturday, September 12, 2026.
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