1. Twitter announced its latest Transparency Report and Turkey continuous to be the World leaders in the combined requests, court orders, other legal demands, accounts specified for closure, accounts and tweets withheld categories. Details are below👇
2. First of all, Turkey sent 347 information requests to Turkey and Twitter did nopt comply with any of these during the first 6 months of 2020. Moreover, between 2012-2020, Twitter did not copmply with any of the 5.000 requests involving 10.600 accounts specified. 
3. Overall (2012-2020 First half Period), Turkey remains no. 1 in the combined requests category (court orders & other legal demands) with 45.776 requests, followed by Japan with 38.941 requests and Russia with 30.436 combined requests.
4. Turkey also remains number one at the most court orders sent to Twitter category with 6.513 court orders, followed by Russia with 2.972 and South Korea with 515 court orders. Well, we beat Russia & South Korea!
5. Overall, Turkey is at number one in the all time "other legal demands category" (these are other than court orders) with 39.263 such requests but Japan has made an unexpected jump to second place with 38.814 requests, followed by Russia with 27.464 such requests.
6. Turkey remains at number one for the total number of accounts specified for closure/action with its court orders and other legal demands. Turkey specified 99.840 accounts, followed by Indonesia with 74.660 and Japan with 47.472 accounts.
7. In terms of accounts withheld by Twitter, the most are from Turkey with 2.501 withheld accounts, followed by 340 accounts from Russia and 238 from India. We will not let anyone come close to our performance and Japan has only 6 accounts withheld!
8. In terms of tweets withheld by Twitter, Turkey remains number one with 12.135 tweets out of 28.542 tweets withheld. Therefore, almost 42% of the tweets withheld globally by Twitter are from Turkey.
9. According to Twitter, 58 accounts of verified journalists and news outlets from around the world were subject to 333 legal demands. The majority of these legal demands originated from India (149) and well of course Turkey (142).
10. Twitter filed legal objections for court orders from Turkey that involved verified journalists & news outlets, arguing that those decisions are contrary to Turkish protections of freedom of the press. None of those objections were successful during the first half of 2020.
11. Needless to say Twitter is aware of the ongoing problems with judiciary and due process in Turkey and the company knows that it will have no chance of successfully defending freedom of expression if the company decides to have legal presence in Turkey.
12. In fact, coming to Turkey will result with Twitter becoming complicit in rights violations and will be against the current approach and @Policy adopted by Twitter with regards to demands from Turkey.
13. Among others, Twitter did not close down or withheld media organisations' accounts such as @BirGun_Gazetesi and @gazetesozcu as well as journalist @candundaradasi's account. Twitter will have to comply with such requests if the company establishes an office in Turkey.
14. Here are some further examples of accounts that twitter did not block subsequent to requests from Turkish judges
https://twitter.com/engelliweb/status/1349058324822716416?s=20
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