MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access ban on X account – Altan Sancar
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Altan Sancar
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2025
LAST UPDATED
23/11/2025
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Hold an Opinion
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Interferences by the Executive Power
BTK (The Information and Communication Technologies Authority)
Decision to block access
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Other Laws

30 June 2025

Journalist Altan Sancar’s account on the social media platform X was blocked in Turkey. Sancar was among the journalists covering the trial in which İstanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and several associates were imprisoned and evaluating the case files.