Turkish authorities on Thursday detained at least 11 people including an actor suspected of spreading calls for a blanket boycott of purchases in protest against the jailing of Istanbul's opposition mayor.

Turkish opposition staged an economic boycott, avoiding non-essential purchases as a protest against President Erdoğan’s government.

Unlike X, which has suspended social media accounts at the request of the Turkish government, Meta says it has faced heavy fines in Turkey for refusing to do so.

Protests that erupted across Turkey following the arrest of the main challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have taken a new direction with calls for a one-day shopping boycott.

Former German international Mesut Özil has spoken out against a boycott call by critics of the Turkish government amid the country's worst political crisis in over a decade. “Let’s not harm our local and national brands under the guise of a boycott.

Young people and students across Turkey declared April 2, 2025, a day of mass economic boycott, vowing not to engage in any commercial transactions for the entire day.

UK singer Robbie Williams has also faced calls to cancel his show after the Turkish promoter went on social media to condemn a fight that broke out in a coffee shop boycotted by protesters. "Plain and simple, this is hostility towards the capital. Act of treason," Abdulkadir Ozkan said on X.