{"id":990421,"date":"2026-02-07T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990421"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:15:33","slug":"turkey-edges-towards-curbing-social-media-access-to-minors-amid-global-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/07\/turkey-edges-towards-curbing-social-media-access-to-minors-amid-global-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey edges towards curbing social media access to minors amid global push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey is laying the groundwork to \u2060restrict social media access for minors with a parliamentary report this week calling for broad measures including age verification and content filtering, joining a growing list of countries seeking tighter controls. <\/p>\n<p>President Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s ruling AK Party is expected to submit a draft law on the \u200cissue soon and \u200cFamily and Social Services Minister Mahinur Ozdemir Goktas told reporters after a cabinet meeting last month that the bill would include a social media ban for minors \u200cand compel service providers to build content-filtering systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey is laying the groundwork to \u2060restrict social media access for minors with a parliamentary report this week calling for broad measures including age verification and content filtering, joining a growing list of countries seeking tighter controls. President Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s ruling AK Party is expected to submit a draft law on the \u200cissue soon and \u200cFamily and Social Services Minister Mahinur Ozdemir Goktas told reporters after a cabinet meeting last month that the bill would include a social media ban for minors \u200cand compel service providers to build content-filtering systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}