X makes nearly 500 accounts inaccessible to users in Turkey over the past week, according to EngelliWeb, an internet censorship monitoring service. The accounts targeted include journalists, economists, academics, and other public figures, EngelliWeb says.
Bloomberg reports the changes follow court orders, while The Next Web cites the same monitoring figure attributed to EngelliWeb’s reporting. Both outlets rely on EngelliWeb’s assessment of blocks affecting accounts available to users in Turkey. The reporting focuses on the scale of the concealment and the types of accounts impacted, rather than detailing the underlying legal cases. Neither outlet provides additional information about which specific court decisions prompted each block or how X communicates the actions to affected account holders.
EngelliWeb is operated by the Turkish rights group İFÖD, which tracks restrictions applied to online services in Turkey. The outlets present the counts as the most recent evidence of platform-level account inaccessibility tied to court rulings.
