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Is my site blocked in Turkey (Türkiye)?
In 2025, most blocks in Turkey were ordered not by a court but by the president of the telecoms regulator BTK; on 31 July 2026 these powers passed to the Cyber Security Presidency (SGB). Many providers block in DNS, the internet's address book that turns domain names into server addresses, and legitimate sites can get caught by blocks on shared hosting domains like pages.dev and netlify.app, or by the family filter that new subscribers get by default. The government lookup at internet.btk.gov.tr/sitesorgu shows many recorded blocking decisions but not all, and guvenlinet.org.tr/sorgula shows whether the family filter covers a domain.
Sources: İFÖD, EngelliWeb 2025, ch. 3, July 2026 · İFÖD, 11 August 2026 · OONI, 2 August 2024 · İFÖD, 21 February 2025 · İFÖD, 25 November 2025 · İFÖD, EngelliWeb guide, checked 11 November 2026 · Vodafone, checked 11 November 2026
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Who orders blocks in Turkey?
In 2025, mostly the president of BTK. Under Law No. 5651, the internet law, the BTK president's administrative decisions covered 84.6% of the 232,441 domains that İFÖD, a freedom-of-expression group, found blocked that year. About 70% of those blocks were gambling and betting sites, İFÖD estimates. On 31 July 2026, Law No. 7590 moved these blocking powers to the Cyber Security Presidency (Siber Güvenlik Başkanlığı, SGB), and İFÖD recorded the first SGB domain blocks on 6 August.
Sources: İFÖD, EngelliWeb 2025, ch. 3, July 2026 · Resmî Gazete, 31 July 2026 · İFÖD, 11 August 2026
Judges and many other public bodies can order or request blocks too. Among them are the national lottery and sports-betting administrations, the trade and health ministries, and the Capital Markets Board. In its bulletin of 3 July 2025, the Board ordered steps to block 46 sites, including the crypto exchange PancakeSwap. No official total of blocked domains is published; İFÖD's count of sites and domains ever blocked reached 1,505,484 by the end of 2025.
Sources: İFÖD, EngelliWeb 2025, ch. 2, July 2026 · Dünya, 4 July 2025 · Forbes Türkiye, 4 July 2025 · İFÖD, EngelliWeb 2025, ch. 1, July 2026
How do Turkish providers block a site, and how can I check?
Often in DNS. When Instagram was blocked from 2 to 10 August 2024, OONI, which measures internet censorship, saw the DNS of six networks give the same false address for it: 195.175.254.2. The networks were Türk Telekom, TTNet, TT Mobil, TurkNet, GOKNET and Türksat. OONI lists that address as "a poisoned DNS reply used in Turkey since 2014", so if a Turkish network's DNS gives it for your domain, your site is blocked on purpose. Not every block is in DNS: in 2025 OONI found Telegram Web blocked by connections that simply timed out.
Sources: OONI, 2 August 2024 · OONI blocking fingerprints, checked 11 November 2026 · OONI, 20 November 2025
The government lookup at internet.btk.gov.tr/sitesorgu, which İFÖD now lists for blocks applied by SGB, shows whether a blocking decision is recorded for a domain. It does not show every block: blocks of single pages are missing, and blocks applied through the Association of Access Providers (ESB) have a separate lookup on turkiye.gov.tr. OONI Explorer, an open database of censorship tests, can be searched by network, such as TTNet or TurkNet, and by domain; a domain nobody has tested in Turkey shows no result.
Sources: İFÖD, EngelliWeb guide, checked 11 November 2026 · OONI, 2 August 2024 · OONI Explorer guide, checked 11 November 2026
Can a block on a shared domain cut off my site?
Yes, if your site shares a domain (such as pages.dev) or a server address with the target. Four cases:
- pages.dev. The hosting service Cloudflare Pages gives every site an address under this domain. BTK blocked it on 29 May 2023 over illegal betting, and the block was lifted after a while. The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) blocked it on 25 November 2025 over pirated match broadcasts; İFÖD says tens of thousands of independent websites were directly affected.
- netlify.app. The hosting service Netlify gives each site a default address under this domain. BTK blocked it on 21 February 2025 over illegal betting.
- ampproject.org. The domain of AMP, an open-source project Google developed for fast mobile pages; İFÖD says it supports millions of websites. The TFF blocked it on 22 January 2025, and the block was lifted about 16 hours later.Source: İFÖD, EngelliWeb 2025, July 2026
- live-video.net. The domain of Amazon's live streaming service, Amazon IVS. The national lottery administration blocked it on 16 September 2025 over illegal betting, and some sites built on it, such as Kick, had trouble playing live streams.
The TFF also blocked 55,512 IP addresses (the numeric addresses of servers) from 2022 to 2025, and blocking an IP address can cut off unrelated sites that share it. The TFF lost its power to order blocks on 14 July 2026, when a Constitutional Court ruling took effect. More cases: Collateral blocking in Europe.
Sources: İFÖD, EngelliWeb 2025, July 2026 · Diken, 14 July 2026 · OONI, 30 June 2026
Why do some Turkish visitors get a warning page instead of my site?
One reason is Güvenli İnternet ("Safe Internet"), a free filter offered by providers. Under a BTK decision of 8 June 2021, new subscriptions start on its Family profile unless the subscriber asks otherwise. Vodafone has done this since 8 September 2021, and Turkcell since 12 September 2021. The transport minister put the number of subscribers at more than 55 million at the end of 2025. The Family profile blocks listed sites in categories such as gambling, drugs, prostitution, obscenity, violence, terrorism, fraud and malware, and subscribers can also block social media, games and chat. Vodafone says blocked visitors are sent to a warning page designed by the operators.
Sources: Vodafone, checked 11 November 2026 · Turkcell, checked 11 November 2026 · Anadolu Agency, 23 January 2026
If your site is classified wrongly, look it up at guvenlinet.org.tr/sorgula, which shows the profile a domain is listed in; users and site owners can send BTK a request from there.
Sources: Superonline, checked 11 November 2026 · Vodafone, checked 11 November 2026
Does Turkey slow sites down instead of blocking them?
For big platforms, yes. Until 31 July 2026, Article 60(10) of the Electronic Communications Law let the office of Turkey's President order throttling (slowing a service until it is unusable), and operators had to apply it within two hours. Law No. 7590 repealed that paragraph and added Article 60/A: in urgent cases the Cyber Security Presidency can now order "measures", which operators must also apply within two hours. Before the law passed, İFÖD warned that these could include throttling.
Sources: İFÖD, EngelliWeb 2025, July 2026 · Resmî Gazete, 31 July 2026 · İFÖD, 13 July 2026, on the bill
İFÖD reports two throttling episodes in 2025, both only in Istanbul: about 42 hours from 19 March and about 21 hours from 7 September. Both hit X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, and the March one also hit Twitch, though OONI found Telegram Web blocked rather than slowed. To visitors this looks like a slow connection, not a block, so posts or videos from these platforms embedded in your pages may stall.
Sources: İFÖD, EngelliWeb 2025, July 2026 · OONI, 20 November 2025
What has linkspect seen in Turkey?
We ran our first measurements in Turkey on 10 November 2026. For blocked domains, Türk Telekom's DNS gave one shared notice address instead of each site's own, and a test on Turkcell mobile gave no clear answer. We do not detect throttling, and Turkey is not open to customers yet; Germany, Poland and Norway are open in early access.
Facts checked on 11 November 2026.