{"id":11171,"date":"2026-02-20T19:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/turkey-requires-social-media-users-to-verify-their-identity\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:38:46","slug":"turkey-requires-social-media-users-to-verify-their-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/turkey-requires-social-media-users-to-verify-their-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Requires Social Media Users to Verify Their Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Turkish government plans to introduce a bill to parliament that would require social media users to confirm their real identities when posting or sharing content. The move is aimed at enhancing digital accountability and combating misuse, illegal activities, and misinformation online. <\/p>\n\n<p>Justice Minister Ak\u0131n G\u00fcrl\u00fck explained that the proposal includes mechanisms to verify users\u2019 identities and link accounts to their national ID numbers or phone numbers, aiming to reduce anonymous or fake accounts often used to spread harmful or misleading content. <\/p>\n\n<p>According to the draft legislation, the new rules will also impose restrictions on account creation for individuals under 15, with additional technical measures possible for monitoring users under 18 through biometric verification or other advanced methods.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The proposal also grants regulatory authorities the power to quickly remove illegal content without waiting for a court order in some cases and imposes penalties on <a href=\"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/uk-considers-social-media-ban-for-minors\/\">social media<\/a> platforms that fail to comply. <\/p>\n\n<p>This step is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/explore-the-map-of-turkey-and-its-neighboring-countries\/\">Turkey<\/a>\u2019s broader effort to strengthen digital oversight and regulate the online space in response to the spread of abusive and harmful content. However, it has sparked widespread debate over online freedom of expression and privacy, with some rights advocates warning that mandatory identity verification could affect free and critical interaction on digital platforms.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish government plans to introduce a bill to parliament that would require social media users to confirm their real identities when posting or sharing content. The move is aimed at enhancing digital accountability and combating misuse, illegal activities, and misinformation online. Justice Minister Ak\u0131n G\u00fcrl\u00fck explained that the proposal includes mechanisms to verify users\u2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[411],"class_list":["post-11171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-turkey-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11217,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171\/revisions\/11217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}