{"id":5214,"date":"2023-05-14T18:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2023-05-14T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:40:07","slug":"turkey-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/05\/14\/turkey-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plenty of social media coverage on this, for example: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-65581251\">BBC News, Turkey decides on future with or without Erdogan<\/a>. &#8220;Polls have closed in the most pivotal elections in Turkey&#8217;s modern history, to decide if Recep Tayyip Erdogan stays president after 20 years in power.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudaw.net\/english\/middleeast\/turkey\/13052023\">Rudaw, Twitter blocks \u2018some content\u2019 in Turkey ahead of critical vote<\/a> &#8220;Twitter on Saturday said it restricted access to \u201csome content\u201d within Turkey to ensure that the social media giant remains available in the country ahead of Sunday\u2019s presidential vote, which is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s toughest political challenge in his career.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On Turkey\u2019s election night it\u2019s imperative that social media platforms &amp; the wider internet remain accessible so the public can follow independent election monitors &amp; reporting around the vote count. The integrity of Turkey\u2019s election depends upon it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hrw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hrw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nIvMn0LasI\">https:\/\/t.co\/nIvMn0LasI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Emma Sinclair-Webb (@esinclairwebb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esinclairwebb\/status\/1657277414467149826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2023\/05\/12\/how-social-media-became-key-turkeys-elections\">HRW, How Social Media Became Key in Turkey\u2019s Elections<\/a>, 12 May 2023. &#8220;Social media companies have been inconsistent and nontransparent in their approach to content moderation and account authenticity, which in the Turkish case contributes to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FakeTrendAlert\/status\/1655286507605745668\" target=\"_blank\">muddying an already fraught<\/a> political scene. Platforms should ensure they are devoting adequate resources to meet their human rights responsibilities, especially during elections.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of social media coverage on this, for example: BBC News, Turkey decides on future with or without Erdogan. &#8220;Polls have closed in the most pivotal elections in Turkey&#8217;s modern history, to decide if Recep Tayyip Erdogan stays president after 20 years in power.&#8221; Check out Rudaw, Twitter blocks \u2018some content\u2019 in Turkey ahead of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,72],"tags":[101,73],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-turkey-internet","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}