How the Censorship Mechanism Works in the Arts: State of Emergency and its Aftermath

Authors

  • Alara Sert Speak Up Platform
  • Nur Tüysüz Speak Up Platform

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47613/reflektif.2023.129

Keywords:

censorship, artistic freedom of expression, chilling effect

Abstract

Turkey has seen a serious backslide in human rights in the last 20 years where the government has become increasingly authoritarian and has used any tool at its disposal as a means of oppression. Artistic freedom of expression is undoubtedly one of the areas that have been affected. This piece focuses on the functioning of the government’s censorship mechanism in the arts based on the data collected by Speak Up Platform (Susma Platformu) through its monitoring activities about censorship and self-censorship in the field of arts and culture since 2016. This article, where the State of Emergency period is a starting point, tries to reveal how the censorship mechanism is established, how it operates and is made permanent through the legislature, executive, judiciary and “non-state actors”.

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Published

2023-10-09

How to Cite

Sert, A., & Tüysüz, N. (2023). How the Censorship Mechanism Works in the Arts: State of Emergency and its Aftermath. REFLEKTIF Journal of Social Sciences, 4(3), 643–652. https://doi.org/10.47613/reflektif.2023.129

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 3 (2023): October

Section

Opinion Papers

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