Sustained censorship in Turkey (2026-08)
Turkey · August 1, 2026 · Ongoing
OONI detected 6 days of elevated network interference averaging 2.4% anomaly rate.
Evidence
2%
Anomaly Rate
6
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
2% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO mean F1 0.711, honest across 131 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeAugust 1, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (6)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference6 records
block
"OONI per-ASN: 808/22669 anomalous, 195 confirmed on AS9121"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.04
Aug 1, 2026
View source →block
"OONI per-ASN: 24/3332 anomalous, 50 confirmed on AS12735"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.01
Aug 1, 2026
View source →block
"OONI per-ASN: 16/451 anomalous, 32 confirmed on AS16135"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.04
Aug 1, 2026
View source →block
"OONI per-ASN: 159/5267 anomalous, 122 confirmed on AS34984"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.03
Aug 1, 2026
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"OONI per-ASN: 3/200 anomalous, 4 confirmed on AS47331"— OONI report
Signal value: 0.01
Aug 1, 2026
View source →+ 1 more OONI records
What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- A confirmed duration — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- Independent corroboration — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Sustained censorship in Turkey (2026-08) [TR-2026-0284]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/TR-2026-0284
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