Celal Mümtaz AKINCI M. Emin KUZ Rapporteur : Esat Caner YILMAZOĞLU 1st Applicant : Yaman AKDENİZ Counsel : Att. Hüsnü ÖNDİL 2nd Applicant : Mustafa Sezgin TANRIKULU Counsel : Att. Berk BAŞARA 3rd Applicant : Kerem ALTIPARMAK I. SUBJECT OF APPLICATON 1. The applicants have asserted that due to the action of the Presidency of Telecommunication and Communication (TİB) in relation to the blocking of access to the web site with the domain name twitter.com which they are a user of, articles 26, 27, 40 and 67 of the Constitution are breached and there is no effective remedy against the said action. II. APPLICATION PROCESS 2. The applications have been submitted directly to the Constitutional Court on 2425/3/2014. As a result of the preliminary administrative examination of the petitions and their annexes, it has been determined that there is no deficiency to prevent the submission thereof to the Commission. 3. It has been decided that applications No. 2014/3987 and 2014/4091 of similar essence be consolidated with the application No. 2014/3986 due to the fact that they have the same legal character regarding their subjects and that the examination be conducted over this file. 4. It has been decided by the Head of Section on 28/3/2014, that the examinations for admissibility and merits be conducted together and a copy of the application be sent to the Ministry of Justice. 5. Considering it as a requisite to urgently make a decision in relation to the applications as per clause (2) of article 71 of the Standing Orders of the Constitutional Court, the Section has evaluated the application in terms of its admissibility and merits without waiting for the response of the Ministry. III. FACTS AND CASES A. Facts 6. As expressed in the application form and the annexes thereof, the facts are summarized as follows: 7. The applicants are active users of the web site with the domain name twitter.com which is a social media platform. 8. TİB has implemented a decision for protection measure on the basis of the judgment of the Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor of İstanbul dated 7/3/2014 and No. 2011/762, of the 2nd Criminal Court of Peace of Samsun dated 4/3/2014 and No. 2014/223,