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Turkish court blocks T24 website over LGBTQ+ propaganda claims

Istanbul prosecutor's office investigation leads to access ban on independent news portal.

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Turkish court blocks T24 website over LGBTQ+ propaganda claims

What this story says

  • A Turkish court has ordered access to the independent news portal T24, including its website and social media accounts, to be blocked.
  • The blocking order was issued as part of the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office investigation named 'My Family is Safe'.
  • The reason cited for the block is content deemed to be 'LGBTQ+ propaganda' or 'LGBT propaganda'.
  • Some reports state that 118 pieces of content were cited as grounds for the decision.

Who covered it

Left 14%(1)Centre 15%(1)Right 71%(5)

Percentages are shares of the 7 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 36 of the 43 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

30/100

Craft

60/100

Hype

41/100

43 sources · methodology

A Turkish court has ordered that access to the independent news portal T24, its website and social media accounts, be blocked. The decision was communicated by the Justice Ministry and is part of an investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office titled 'My Family is Safe'. The reason given for the block is content deemed to be 'LGBTQ+ propaganda' or 'LGBT propaganda'.

Disagreement on content count

Some reports state that 118 pieces of content were cited as grounds for the decision. Other reports do not specify a number of content pieces.

What the coverage left out

None of the left, centre, or right-rated reports mention the specific court that issued the order, beyond stating it was a Turkish court. The full report from Cumhuriyet names the Istanbul 1st Sulh Ceza Hakimliği.

Tags:#Turkey#MediaFreedom#LGBTQ#Censorship#T24

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 1 time, most recently on 30 Sept 2026, 17:00, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

1 rated outlet

  • The left-rated report from Cumhuriyet stated that the Istanbul 1st Sulh Ceza Hakimliği had issued the access ban. It noted the investigation was named 'Ailem Güvende' (My Family is Safe) and that the decision was sent to the Cyber Security Presidency for implementation. The report also included unrelated news items about asset freezes and political developments concerning Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya and the 'Fon scandal', as well as gold prices.

Centre

1 rated outlet

  • The centre-rated report from WTVB, a digest, stated that a Turkish court ordered access to T24's website and social media accounts to be blocked over content deemed 'LGBT propaganda', according to the Justice Ministry. It noted the date as September 30 and attributed the information to Reuters.

Right

5 rated outlets

  • The right-rated reports from Cyprus Mail, Protothema, dagelijksestandaard.nl, The Straits Times, and MİLLİYET HABER all stated that a Turkish court ordered access to T24's website and social media accounts to be blocked over content deemed 'LGBT propaganda'. The Justice Ministry announced the decision. Protothema and MİLLİYET HABER mentioned that 118 pieces of content were cited as grounds for the decision, with MİLLİYET HABER specifying this was over the last year. Dagelijksestandaard.nl and The Straits Times also attributed the information to Reuters or AFP.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Turkish court blocks T24 website over LGBTQ+ propaganda claims?
Of the 7 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 14% are rated left, 15% are rated centre, 71% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 43. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Turkish court blocks T24 website over LGBTQ+ propaganda claims left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 7 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Turkish court blocks T24 website over LGBTQ+ propaganda claims biased?
Turkish court blocks T24 website over LGBTQ+ propaganda claims is one event reported by 43 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which outlets covered Turkish court blocks T24 website over LGBTQ+ propaganda claims?
43 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Why has the T24 news website been blocked?
A Turkish court ordered the blocking of T24's website and social media accounts as part of an investigation named 'My Family is Safe'. The reason cited was content deemed to be 'LGBTQ+ propaganda'.
Which authority issued the blocking order?
The blocking order was issued by a Turkish court. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office is conducting the investigation under which the order was made.
How many pieces of content were cited as grounds for the block?
Some reports state that 118 pieces of content were cited as grounds for the decision to block T24's website and social media accounts.

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43 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

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Right

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