Of 53,195 live Turkish websites, 2,905 (5.46%) block an AI crawler — 41st of 43 countries. Travel and real estate lead the blocking, but Turkey has one of the lowest accidental self-exclusion rates in the world.
Analysis of 41,818,678 live, content-validated websites worldwide · snapshot 2026-07-13 · by Piperic
Turkey runs one of the more cautious webs in the survey. Of 53,195 live .tr sites, 5.46% block an AI crawler — 41st of 43 countries, above the global norm. Travel (7.91%) and real estate (7.14%) lead the sectoral table, a property-and-tourism defensive pattern.
But Turkey's blocking is unusually deliberate. Only 2.6% of Turkish GPTBot-blockers accidentally shut out ChatGPT Search — one of the lowest accidental-exclusion rates in the entire report, less than half the global average. Where Turkish sites block, they distinguish training bots from search bots almost perfectly.
The press is relatively moderate at 8.12%, and 88.7% of the web sits in silence with only 5.85% having consciously declared a policy. Turkey's profile: cautious by instinct, but precise by execution.
Share of sites blocking at least one AI crawler — lower = more open. Turkey ranks #41 of 44 countries analysed.
Neighbours shown for context. Full ranking in the data download.
Every website falls into one of four groups, based on what it blocks and what it declares:
2,835 Turkey websites block GPTBot to keep their content out of AI training. But 73 of them — 2.6% — ALSO block OAI-SearchBot, most likely by accident. Those sites have removed themselves from ChatGPT Search results entirely: protected from training, but invisible where their customers now search.
GPTBot (training) and OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search) are independent robots.txt tokens — blocking one does not block the other.
Share of Turkey sites blocking each crawler in robots.txt.
Bytespider is ByteDance's (TikTok) crawler — it ignores robots.txt more often than the majors, yet it is among the most-blocked.
AI-blocking and llms.txt adoption across Turkey's biggest website categories.
| Sector | Sites | Blocks AI | llms.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📰 News & media | 887 | 8.12% | 4.4% |
| business and finance | 19,491 | 5.27% | 3.48% |
| technology and computing | 4,725 | 6.67% | 6.12% |
| home and garden | 4,690 | 4.71% | 5.05% |
| automotive | 2,402 | 5.7% | 3.75% |
| style and fashion | 2,378 | 4.79% | 14.84% |
| shopping | 2,279 | 4.48% | 8.69% |
| personal finance | 1,894 | 4.22% | 3.22% |
| medical health | 1,745 | 4.58% | 5.16% |
| food and drink | 1,340 | 5.0% | 4.93% |
| politics | 1,212 | 3.47% | 58.0% |
| travel | 1,176 | 7.91% | 4.34% |
Turkey news sites block AI 1.5× more often than the national average (8.12% vs 5.46%) — publishers are the most defensive segment of the web.
7,270 Turkey online shops are open to AI crawlers (94.4% of 7,701). Their product content can already be read, compared and recommended by AI assistants — whether they know it or not.
Share of sites blocking at least one AI bot, by platform:
This is the baseline edition (2026-07-13). Piperic re-measures continuously; the next edition will show how fast Turkey's web is closing — or opening.
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Sample: 53,195 live, content-validated websites (Turkey, ccTLD-based assignment), out of 41,818,678 live domains analysed worldwide. “Live” = HTTP 200 and not parked. “Blocks AI” = the site's robots.txt disallows at least one of 14 known AI crawlers. llms.txt/ai.txt = the file exists at the site root. Snapshot: 2026-07-13 (frozen — numbers do not move with the live crawl). Full-web note: these figures cover the ENTIRE live web including the long tail; industry headlines like “25% of top sites block GPTBot” measure only large publishers — both are true, they measure different things. Country assignment via ccTLD under-counts .com/.org sites; treat US figures as indicative.
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