Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said,We did not get the result we wanted in our meeting with Instagram officials” said.
Featured on TRT News According to the news, Minister Uraloğlu said that “We do not expect any development today” also made a statement. According to the news on BBC According to a Meta spokesperson, the situation was as follows: “With Instagram blocked in Turkey, millions of people are left without a way to communicate with their family and friends on a daily basis, while businesses are also unable to reach their customers. We will continue to do everything we can to restore our services.” Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu made the following statement from his X account in the morning: “A meeting was held last week with the authorities of the social media platform Instagram, to which we have blocked access due to the policies it has implemented within the scope of catalog crimes. During the meeting, our sensitivities regarding compliance with the laws of the Republic of Turkey were conveyed. We will meet with them again this afternoon. We hope that they will do what is necessary to meet our demands and we expect positive developments.”
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Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Ömer Fatih Sayan said the following about the ban last week: had conveyed: “When it comes to Western countries, we see that social media platforms are taking precautions quickly on many issues, especially Catalogue Crimes. We have been demanding the same sensitivity and fair stance from the beginning. We want these platforms to have the same safe, clean and fair content mechanism that they offer in countries where they abide by the rules, in Turkey. This double standard applied by providers is a common problem for the whole world. Let’s remember; we said, come open representative offices in our country and prevent the rights violations of our people. They did not want to come.
They did not take the necessary steps against the crimes reported to them. We said let’s build a cleaner internet together, let our people find someone to talk to, they did some show business with some virtual offices. We prevented all these backstabbing with the changes we made in the law. We see that they are still trying to maintain the same understanding. They say, “I read what I know, I publish what I want, I don’t publish what I want.” We did not accept this, we will not accept it. We will do whatever it takes to establish a cleaner and safer social media environment that respects our values, is free of disinformation.”