The Freedom of Expression Association (İfade Özgürlüğü Derneği, İFÖD) announced on 1 October that an access-blocking order has been issued against the X account of EngelliWeb, the project through which it monitors and documents access blocking in Türkiye.

“The X account of the EngelliWeb project, which monitors and documents access blocking, has been blocked,” the announcement reads. “The account has not yet been withheld from Türkiye by X.”

İFÖD said it had not been told which court issued the order or on what legal basis.

EngelliWeb has tracked blocked websites, news reports and social media content since 2008 and publishes annual reports on blocking decisions, content-removal orders and social media restrictions. It is the principal public record of internet censorship in Türkiye, maintained because the State publishes no comprehensive data of its own. The account has about 46,700 followers.

The order follows the blocking a week earlier of the X account of Yaman Akdeniz, İFÖD’s co-founder and one of Türkiye’s best-known scholars of internet law. That order was made under Article 8/A of Law No. 5651 on national-security and public-order grounds, and X subsequently withheld his account in Türkiye. “Platforms have obeyed and are applying every decision,” Akdeniz said on 24 September. “But we will neither obey nor leave you in peace. You can make us invisible, but we will never remain invisible. We will continue the legal struggle.”

The two orders sit at the end of a month of account-level blocking that İFÖD itself documented. At least 150 accounts were blocked on 28 September, among them two BirGün reporters, the ANKA agency’s courthouse correspondent, the news outlet Bizim TV and several lawyers. At least 147 followed on 30 September, with a combined 2.65 million followers, belonging largely to economists, academics, analysts, traders and lawyers posting about the investment fund crisis. On the same day the İstanbul 1st Criminal Judgeship of the Peace ordered the blocking of the entire T24 news website, together with an X account of some 1.9 million followers, a YouTube channel of about 268,000 subscribers and an Instagram account of roughly 238,000.

İFÖD has argued for years that Article 8/A is applied to whole accounts rather than to the individual posts named in the orders, removing large quantities of lawful expression along with the material cited.

The project that recorded those orders is now subject to one.

Freedom House rates Türkiye’s internet “Not Free”, at 31 out of 100 in its Freedom on the Net 2025 report, the lowest score among the European countries assessed.