radio listening project Radio Garden has been blocked in Turkey upon the request of Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK). On 21 February 2023, Ekşi Sözlük, a popular social network was blocked by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority. Civil society initiatives Initiative for Freedom of Expression is an Istanbul- based association and movement of civil disobedience, working on the right to freedom of expression. It is a member of the global network IFEX. Since 2000, it publishes annual reports on the situation of freedom of expression in Turkey and distributes them among the main Non-Governmental Organizations, as well as to the media institutions. Every week, the Initiative publishes a Weekly Bulletin in Turkish and in English. Since 1997, it organizes biennial "Gatherings for Freedom of Expression" in Istanbul. Together with other stakeholders, it created the ÇTL database (Current Trial Library), recording thought crime cases. It opened a virtual and interactive Museum of the Crimes of Thought. Turkey Blocks monitors access to social media services and online mass-communication networks around Turkey's main population areas. It provides real time reporting of online incidents that may impact the safety, access to information and online business operations. Turkey Uncensored is an Index on Censorship project to publish articles from censored Turkish writers, artists and translators. Index on Censorship also curates the Mapping Media Freedom project - a database identifying threats, violations and limitations faced by members of the press throughout European Union member states, candidates for entry and neighbouring countries where threats on Turkish journalists and foreign journalists in Turkey are regularly monitored. The Platform for Independent Journalism (P24) is a timely initiative to support and promote editorial independence in the Turkish press at a time when the journalistic profession is under fierce commercial and political pressure. İfade Özgürlüğü Derneği (İFÖD - Freedom of Expression Association) published an annual report entitled EngelliWeb, providing detailed information on Internet censorship and blocked websites from Turkey. The association also provides legal support to anyone facing criminal charges involving political speech. Siyah Bant (Black Tape) was established in 2011. The website contains an archive of cases of art censorship after the year 2000, and continues to produce research, documentation and discussions of cases of censorship in the arts in Turkey. See also Clashes at the Turkish Ambassador's Residence in Washington, D.C., an incident where Turkish presidential guards attacked American protesters Concentration of media ownership in Turkey Gleichschaltung,