Turkey blocks access to Instagram

ANKARA, Aug. 02 (YPA) – The Turkish Information and Communications Technology Authority (BTK), announced on Friday that the social media platform Instagram has been blocked.

BTK did not provide reasons or details on the duration of the blockage.

The move, which was implemented on August 2, has rendered both the platform’s website and mobile app inaccessible within the country.”

This move comes after Communications Director Fahrettin Altun criticized the social media platform, saying it “is actively preventing people from posting messages of condolences for the passing of Hamas leader [Ismail] Haniyeh without citing any policy violations.”

“This is censorship, pure and simple,” he said in a post on X on Wednesday after Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran.

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