"The account of the journalist Mahmut Bozarslan (@mahmutbozarslan) has been blocked" under the country's national security and public orders, said EngelliWeb, a platform that monitors websites and social media.

"I have no idea of the reasons that led to this blocking," said Bozarslan, who is based in Diyarbakir, the main city in the Turkish-majority region.

His latest reports covered the March 21 Newroz celebrations marking the Kurdish new year.

Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the move as censorship.

Ankara has since October 2024 been negotiating a peace process with the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

Its jailed founder Abdullah Ocalan in 2025 for the group to disband, ending four decades of violence that claimed some 50,000 lives, and turned to democratic means to advance the Kurdish cause.

In March 2025, at the night of protests following the arrest of Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the X platform denounced multiple decisions demanding that more than 700 accounts be blocked. They included accounts run by journalists, politicians, students.

The platform nevertheless complied with the request from the Turkish authorities by making them inaccessible from within the country.

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