According to a pro-government Turkish news outlet, Twitter is planning to appoint a delegate as mandated by the country's social media law to avoid approaching bandwidth restrictions. If Twitter does not comply with the rule, its internet bandwidth in Turkey will be reduced by 50% in April and then by 90% after one month.

Ankara made more requests to ban users and delete content than any other country, according to Twitter's latest transparency report. Turkey was responsible for withholding almost 43% of the foreign tweets last year.

The social media law, passed in Ankara last July, has been criticized as a "censorship law" that could jeopardize free speech and media freedom. Individual requests to delete controversial material will be handled by the local representative, who will respond within 48 hours. The social media platform could be held responsible for any losses that arise if the flagged tweets are not deleted or blocked.

In Turkey, YouTube, Facebook, Linked In, Dailymotion, TikTok, and VKontakte, a Russian social media platform, have already formed legal entities. Ankara had banned Twitter advertising since January for not complying with the new rule.

According to Samet Burak Sari, a digital media specialist, “social media posts that are labeled as a crime by court orders will be suspended. However, given the biased nature of the Turkish judiciary, Twitter will be on the side of its users in any potential confrontation with the authorities.”

Süleyman Soylu, the country's interior minister, labeled, arrested Bogazici University students as "perverts" in a tweet in February, which was flagged by Twitter as "hateful behavior," attracting strong criticism from Ankara.

The social media site has become a major source of information for many people in Turkey, where the mass media is dominated by pro-government outlets. There are approximately 13.6 million Twitter users in Turkey. It's understandable that users are worried about potential censorship of their tweets but be assured that Twitter will stand by its community rules in the face of any legal challenges.

Ankara chastised Twitter in June 2020 for deleting over 7,000 accounts, accusing the social media platform of serving as a "propaganda machine" with "partisan and ideological" motives.

These "false" accounts, according to Twitter, were created to promote political narratives that benefited Turkey's ruling government. According to Twitter, a central authority was in charge of the accounts, which were used to send out 37 million tweets promoting the ruling Justice and Development Party and condemning the opposition.