Azerbaijan was the third country with 1.4% share, as Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually intelligible Oghuz languages.

[3] Although the block was lifted in 2020, statistics for pageviews in Turkey and most other Turkic speaking countries are no longer published; but those for some countries; such as Kyrgyzstan, Germany and the United States are.

[9] While the reasons for the blockage were unrevealed, some believe that the encyclopedia had been blocked due to the Turkish government's concerns about articles critical of its actions regarding Turkey–ISIL cooperation.

[10][11] In December 2019, the Constitutional Court of Turkey ruled that the ban violated freedom of expression.

[12] As of 2024[update], the Wikimedia Foundation says about Türkiye and Turkmenistan: “These countries and territories are at higher risk of action being taken against Wikimedia community members for on-platform activities.” so it: “can publish aggregated data about [Türkiye] only using differential privacy such that any consumer of the data will be (in the worst case) at most 2.5% more certain about a data subject's presence or absence in the dataset.”[13]