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This article examines the historical roots and gradual development of networked authoritarianism in Turkey, emphasizing the role of infrastructure and legal frameworks.

May 24, 2026New Perspectives on TurkeyOpen Access

The slow build: material and regulatory infrastructures and the rise of Turkey’s networked authoritarianism

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This article examines the historical roots and gradual development of networked authoritarianism in Turkey, emphasizing the role of infrastructure and legal frameworks.
Utilized a cartographic ethnographic methodology to analyze Turkey's media and regulatory landscape.
Mapped the entanglement of media ownership, regulatory centralization, and expert discourse during the Internet Conferences of Turkey (INET-TR).
Demonstrated how early regulatory decisions enabled a shift toward centralized control over information.
Showed that the approach to internet regulation in Turkey is a hybrid model, combining international connectivity with tight domestic control.

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This article demonstrates how legal and infrastructural foundations facilitated authoritarianism in Turkey, indicating complex control mechanisms.

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Zeyno Ustun (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a12960648a0ea1665672771 https://doi.org/10.1017/npt.2026.10088

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This article demonstrates how legal and infrastructural foundations facilitated authoritarianism in Turkey, indicating complex control mechanisms.

The slow build: material and regulatory infrastructures and the rise of Turkey’s networked authoritarianism

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The slow build: material and regulatory infrastructures and the rise of Turkey’s networked authoritarianism

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