Information and Communication Technologies Authority

The Family, Labor and Social Services Ministry has taken legal action against four YouTube accounts broadcasting animations with child abuse contents.
The videos posted on the platform have had many views, ranging from 300,000 to 4 million.

Turkey has launched a project for reducing the spread of the novel coronavirus by using location data from patients' mobile devices, the country's Communications Directorate said on April 8. 

In scope of measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Turkey has launched a brand new project in a bid to monitor citizens who have been isolated due to COVID-19.

Turkey has formed a second science board to tackle the social impacts of the measures taken in the fight against the coronavirus, the health minister has announced, informing that the new board will include experts in the field of psychology of religion, sociology of religion, statistics, sociology and psychology.

The number of mobile subscribers in Turkey increased to 82.9 million as of the third quarter of 2019, rising from 80.1 million at the end of 2018, data from the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) have shown.

The mobile subscriber penetration rate also climbed to 101.1 percent as of end-September from 99 percent in 2018.

Turkey's telecommunications watchdog is set to lift its ban on online encyclopedia Wikipedia after the official publication on Jan. 15 of a top court ruling that the more than two-year block was a violation of expression.

A former employee of Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) was arrested late on Jan. 12 over the assassination of former Russian envoy Andrey Karlov.

A quarter of young people in Turkey are exposed to cyber bullying at least once in their lifetime, according to the head of the country’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK).

Turkey and Japan will sign a cooperation agreement on 5G technology during a forum in South Korea next week, the head of Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) said on Nov. 14. 

A "pirate" website for the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been launched in Turkey, five months after the website was banned in the country.

With its domain name registered in the capital Ankara, the mirror website "www.turkcewikipedia.org" contains all the content of Wikipedia in both English and Turkish.