Turkey Censorship Megapost - by slonkazoid

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turkish internet censorship

providers

*: only seems to do it for discord **: only seems to do it with cloudflare's dns at 1.1.1.1

circumvention

• use a secure and private VPN, such as Mullvad
• if that's not possible, avoid known honeypots such as Nord or Proton VPN
• do not use free VPNs. if you cannot afford/cannot pay for a private VPN, use TOR Browser
• if you're a journalist, take extra caution. we all know this country's track record when it comes to journalism. do not use any VPNs, instead:
  • utilize the TOR project, use Tor Browser for any activities
  • boot Tails OS for maximum anonymity
  • your phone is not secure. install a secure ROM such as GrapheneOS. as much as i hate to promote them, your safety is of utmost priority
  • check out the No Trace Project

DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS)

android

1. go to settings -> Network & Internet -> Private DNS
2. set it to Something Other Than "Off"

or

download 1.1.1.1 from the play store and use it

ios

download 1.1.1.1 from the app store and use it. no custom DoH for you lololol

2025-03-19: total social media censorship

after Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest, almost all (popular) social media sites including but not limited to:

• YouTube
• Instagram
• Faceboom
• Twitter

were blocked country-wide, to prevent the people from speaking up.

the discord incident

i have no idea if the allegations are true but it's something that happens on every platform. you can not stop child exploitation by blocking a messaging app that mostly normal people use.

circumvention (advanced)

vodafone

you could use a VPN with builtin circumvention like mullvad, alongside encrypted DNS.

for self-hosters, read below.

dm me if you are on vodafone. i have yet to come up with a general enough solution to this that an Ordinary Person can pull off. currently i do selfhosted wireguard running on my laptop at home (which is turknet), which both acts as a tunnel and DoT proxy. i use socat and DTLS to create a connectionless obfuscation channel without losing tcp congestion control and connect to it using termux on my phone (which uses vodafone for LTE) with battery savings disabled.

server:

socat openssl-dtls-server:4080,reuseaddr,fork,cert=server.pem,cafile=client.crt,verify=1 UDP:127.0.0.1:51337

client:

socat UDP-LISTEN:51337,reuseaddr,fork openssl-dtls-client:4.slonk.ing:4080,cert=client.pem,cafile=server.crt,verify=0

another option is to compile wireguard with different magic numbers. both server and client.

turknet

use encrypted DNS. see the DNS section for more info.

kablonet, turkcell and turktelekom

use a VPN with encrypted DNS. i recommend mullvad though others will work. if you have a mate on turknet that can host a wireguard server for you, you might want to consider that as well.

gıbırnet

just change your dns to 8.8.8.8 or 9.9.9.9

thanks yigib for telling me about gıbırnet.

DNS

DoT (DNS-over-TLS)

systemd-resolved

enable it in resolved.conf. i don't think you need to be told how

notes

cloudflare warp no longer works as even their exit nodes are blocked from accessing discord.