DEM Party MP Koçyiğit submits parliamentary question on social media account ID numbers

DEM Party Group Deputy Chairperson and Kars MP Gülüstan Kılıç Koçyiğit has brought to the agenda of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) the use of account ID numbers defined by platforms, alongside usernames, in access restriction decisions targeting social media accounts.

DEM Party Group Deputy Chairperson and Kars MP Gülüstan Kılıç Koçyiğit prepared separate parliamentary questions for Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu to answer. Koçyiğit stated that in an access restriction decision dated September 30, 2026, covering approximately 200 social media accounts, the accounts belonging to journalists Esra Tokat, İrfan Değirmenci, Sarya Toprak, and Şirin Payzın were targeted through their ID numbers.