{"id":1500,"date":"2026-08-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100.100.1.1\/ifod-stage\/en\/uncategorized\/financial-times-cites-engelliweb-data-and-ifod-co-founder-yaman-akdeniz\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:02:42","slug":"financial-times-cites-engelliweb-data-and-ifod-co-founder-yaman-akdeniz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/references\/financial-times-cites-engelliweb-data-and-ifod-co-founder-yaman-akdeniz\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Times cites EngelliWeb data and \u0130F\u00d6D co-founder Yaman Akdeniz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Financial Times<\/strong> cited data collected by the <strong>Freedom of Expression Association<\/strong> (\u0130F\u00d6D) as part of its <strong>EngelliWeb<\/strong> project in an article examining T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s new cyber security framework and the expansion of executive control over online platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Referring to the restrictions imposed during the protests that followed the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu, the article reported that nearly 1.000 social media accounts with a combined audience of more than 25 million followers had been blocked. The affected accounts included \u0130mamo\u011flu\u2019s main Turkish-language X account, which had more than nine million followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Financial Times also drew on the assessment of <strong>Professor Yaman Akdeniz<\/strong>, one of the founders of \u0130F\u00d6D and a leading digital rights advocate. Akdeniz warned that the transfer of digital oversight powers to the Presidency-affiliated Cybersecurity Directorate was more than an administrative change and described the new structure as \u201ca command centre for Turkey\u2019s digital obedience regime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing plans to verify social media users\u2019 ages through T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s e-government portal, Akdeniz also warned that linking users\u2019 identities to their accounts and posting histories could create a \u201cdigital panopticon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ifod-source-action wp-block-paragraph\"><a class=\"ifod-source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0a6249a2-e28b-4e58-ab2d-2b8615b832dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Read the Financial Times article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Times cited EngelliWeb data on blocked social media accounts and drew on the assessment of \u0130F\u00d6D co-founder Professor Yaman Akdeniz in its reporting on T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s new cyber security law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifade.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}