Censorship
Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
Access to Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey in 2017 after a Turkish administrative order.
What is documented
The Wikimedia Foundation statement records the organisations public account of the block and its legal response. Court records should be added as separate sources when they are used to make a specific legal claim.
Claim labels
SOURCE CLAIM
The Wikimedia Foundation described the block and its legal challenge in its public statement.
FACT
The entry records a service-access restriction and does not infer that every user or network in Turkey experienced identical filtering.
Sources
Last link check: 2026-09-27. A link check confirms reachability, not that every claim has been independently reviewed.
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