---
title: "Turkey Censorship Megapost"
description: "i love censorship +50 social credit"
author: "slonkazoid"
created_at: 2025-03-19T12:00:00+03:00
tags:
 - censorship
 - security
 - turkey
 - meta
---

# turkish internet censorship

## providers

| isp | dns blocking | dns modification | ip blocking | wireguard blocking |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| turknet | yes | yes | no | no |
| turkcell | yes | ? | yes | sometimes\*\* |
| turktelekom | yes | no | yes | no |
| kablonet (turksat) | yes | ? | yes | no |
| vodafone | yes | ? | yes | yes |
| [gıbırnet](https://gibir.net.tr/) | yes | uhh\* | no | no |

\*: only seems to do it with cloudflare's dns at 1.1.1.1  
\*\*: not for residential connections?

## circumvention

- use a secure and private VPN, such as [Mullvad](https://mullvad.net/)
- 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](https://www.torproject.org/download/)
- 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](https://www.torproject.org/), use Tor Browser for
  any activities
  - boot [Tails OS](https://tails.net/) for maximum anonymity
  - your phone is not secure. install a secure ROM such as [GrapheneOS](https://grapheneos.org/).
  as much as i hate to promote them, your safety is of utmost priority
  - check out the [No Trace Project](https://www.notrace.how/)

### 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](https://apnews.com/article/turkey-istanbul-mayor-police-search-ead3dd38aa547ecd13bc336e7d6c4d58),
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: 

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

client:

```sh
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](#dns) 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](https://altinay.tr/) 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.