{"id":33144,"date":"2026-04-25T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/communications-chief-turkey-must-assert-cyber-sovereignty-amid-growing-digital-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:50:39","slug":"communications-chief-turkey-must-assert-cyber-sovereignty-amid-growing-digital-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/communications-chief-turkey-must-assert-cyber-sovereignty-amid-growing-digital-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Communications chief: Turkey must assert cyber sovereignty amid growing digital threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thumbs_b_c_61d38fecfa43ea7362f609608f85e64e.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s Director of Communications, Burhanettin Duran, has stated that his country must assert its sovereignty in cyberspace through urgent legal measures, as every country already treats the digital field as a matter of national security, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an event titled &#8220;Communication in Turkey&#8217;s Century&#8221; in Istanbul, Duran emphasized the increased competition at various political and social levels and said that every country &#8220;now sees cyberspace as an area of sovereignty and is taking measures accordingly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you know, with the legal regulations that have been made recently and will be made in Turkey, we are obliged to affirm our sovereignty in this regard&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duran warned that Turkey faces &#8220;multidimensional&#8221; challenges, ranging from protecting children online to preserving critical national capacities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is really a multi-layered challenge and urgent measures need to be taken&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also emphasized that digitization has made it easier to shape public perception through algorithms, while social networks have been increasingly used as a tool of hybrid warfare by many countries in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display ads (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s Director of Communications, Burhanettin Duran, has stated that his country must assert its sovereignty in cyberspace through urgent legal measures, as every country already treats the digital field as a matter of national security, reports Anadolu. Speaking at an event titled &#8220;Communication in Turkey&#8217;s Century&#8221; in Istanbul, Duran emphasized the increased competition at various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-33144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":13,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33146,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144\/revisions\/33146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}