What does the new era bring for children's accounts on social media?

Turkey has introduced a regulation barring children under 15 from using social media, with platforms required to complete age verification by March 31, 2027. Associate Professor Zindan Çakıcı said the rule's aim is not merely to pull children off social media but to raise them as safer individuals in digital environments. The measure shifts compliance responsibility onto platforms, which must build age-verification systems ahead of the 2027 deadline. It matters because it sets a firm cutoff for under-15 access in a major market and imposes new technical obligations on social media companies. What to watch next is how platforms implement age checks and whether the 2027 timeline holds.