Reaction from TİP Chairman Erkan Baş to the access block: 'We do not accept the decision'

Turkish Workers' Party (TİP) Chairman Erkan Baş reacted to the access block imposed on the X accounts used by his party's headquarters and Istanbul Provincial Directorate.

In his statement on his social media account, Baş said:

"This access ban decision is a clear practice of fascism. Blocking access to the headquarters account of a political party just because it expresses the truth and defends the rights of the people is not only a social media blockade but also an actual attack on democratic politics as a whole. We will continue to say all of the sentences you banned on the street, at the tribune of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, and even say them while looking into your eyes.

What will you do? Will you hang him, shoot him, beat him, or imprison him? Look, I'm saying it clearly; Don't do your best. We are revolutionaries, as long as we breathe, we will catch anyone who commits a crime against the people, hold them by the ear and put them before the people. "We do not accept this absurd decision, we promise the days when everyone who signed these decisions will be tried."

WHAT HAPPENED?

TİP's official X account was blocked from access, citing Article 8/A of Law No. 5651. Freedom of Expression Association (İFOD) reported that despite the decision, the account has not yet been hidden from Türkiye by the platform.