Turkey bans access to Linktree over 'financing illegal betting and terrorism'

Turkish lottery body has banned access to link-in-bio platform Linktree, citing it’s being used to “finance illegal betting and terrorism.”

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Turkey’s National Lottery Administration has banned access to Linktree, a link-in-bio platform mostly used by social media influencers and organizations, Free Web Turkey reported on Oct. 19.

In its Oct. 13-dated decision, the administration argued that the platform was being used to “finance illegal betting and terrorism.”

At least 137,000 different websites became the target of access bans in Turkey in 2022.

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