New Era Of Turkish Internet Law

On 11/10/2023, the Constitutional Court, with its decision numbered E.2023/172 in the file numbered E.2020/76, decided that Article 9 of the Law No. 5651 on the Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes Committed through These Publications, titled 'Removal of Content from Broadcasting and Access Blocking' is unconstitutional and should be annulled. The annulment provisions will enter into force nine months after the publication of the decision in the Official Gazette dated 10.01.2024.

Clauses 1 and 3 of the annulled articles in question stipulated the following:

'(1) The real and legal persons, institutions, and organizations claiming that personality rights are violated due to the content published on the internet may ask the content provider, or the hosting provider if they cannot reach the content provider, to remove the contents from the broadcasting by using warning method, and may also request to prevent access to the content