I’m Ali Safa Korkut. Since 2018, I’ve been working as a journalist, producing stories that serve as documents against the pressure mechanisms, invisible bans, and silenced voices of the digital age.
My reporting focuses on digital rights—such as internet censorship, the right to access information, and data security—as well as broader issues like gender, migration, and labor. I continue to produce investigative stories and long-form reports on these topics.
These works, which I see not only as content but also as acts of witnessing and archiving, have been published in both digital and print outlets by professional organizations such as the Turkish Journalists’ Union and the Journalists’ Association. In addition, my reporting has been featured on various local and international platforms, including Fayn, Aposto, Teyit, and Journo.
In response to increasing government pressure on press freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey, I’ve focused more specifically on digital rights since 2021. At the core of this work are investigations into internet censorship, access to information, data protection, and violations of free expression.
As a result of this works, I served as a project coordinator and editor at the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) between August 2022 and December 2024. Within the scope of the Free Web Turkey project, which I coordinated and edited, I identified news articles, websites, social media posts, accounts, and similar digital materials that were blocked by court orders. To determine who issued these blocking decisions, on what date, and for what reason, I developed a systematic monitoring and documentation process to access court rulings that are not publicly available in Turkey.
Through methods such as 24/7 digital monitoring, URL tracking, content comparison, and legal document archiving, I built a database that revealed the blocking of hundreds of thousands of URLs and allowed me to collect detailed data on each case. Based on this data, I wrote news articles, investigative reports, and annual censorship reports that shed light on the scope of digital censorship in Turkey. The reports for 2022 and 2023 were published in both Turkish and English. In addition, I authored a thematic report in 2022 titled The Bird is Dead, Baby, which focused exclusively on access restrictions targeting Twitter.
In December 2024, I left my position at MLSA. Since then, I have continued this work independently, in line with the nature of journalism as a practice that requires both independence and continuity. Without affiliation to any institution or platform, I continue to track blocked digital materials, archive court decisions, update my database, and produce news stories and investigations that inform the public.
Today in Turkey, journalism is not only about producing news. It is about making the invisible visible, preserving memory in the face of erasure, and defending the right to access information in the face of repression. I carry out my work with that responsibility in mind.
If you'd like to collaborate, request data, or get in touch about digital censorship, access restrictions, or freedom of expression, feel free to contact me via the email address below.
