Analysis of the Draft Provision on the “Presentation of media services via Internet” to the Turkish Law No. 6112 on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and Their Media Services

The legal review, commissioned by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from Professor Yaman Akdeniz, an internationally renowned expert on Internet freedom, assesses the Article in light of the above international treaties and offers ways to improve the legislation governing Internet freedom in Turkey. Its main recommendation is to refrain from adopting Article 73 in its current form, and to focus further discussion on licensing that is based on a “notification model” instead of a system of a priori control where media service providers and platform operators would be required to obtain a licence from the Radio and Television Supreme Council (“RTÜK”).