Netflix Cancels Turkish Series

Many social media users shared the news claiming that Netflix will end its operations in Turkey. Users claimed that the Radio and Television Supreme Council of Turkey passed a law to ban Netflix over LGBTQ content.



Users expressed their anger against the Turkish authority's decision to ban gay content linking the killing of a 27-year-old girl last week. The body of Pınar Gültekin, a university student living in the southwestern province of Muğla, was discovered on Tuesday after she was reported missing on July 16. Gültekin’s former boyfriend Cemal Metin Avcı after he confessed to the murder. Gültekin's body was found buried inside a barrel in a forest in Muğla’s Menteşe district. Claims were circulating across the MENA region.