In Türkiye, access to various internet platforms is clearly severely banned. It not only affects social networks and messengers, but also affects popular services such as YouTube and X, in the east Twitter, Netblock’s Internet Overview Center. This is likely to be in relation to the existing citizen protest against the arrest of the ruling President Recep Tayip Erdogan and several others.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is considered a promising challenge of Erdogan, but was arrested yesterday – a few days before his planned election as the presidential candidate of the largest opposition party in Turkey. Among other things, the Turkish judiciary accused him of membership of a criminal organization and corruption, as the state news agency Anadolu cited the public prosecutor. His party talks about a “civil coup” with which Erdogan’s government wants to eliminate a political rival.
The German federal government criticized the arrest and many people in Türkiye have taken the arrests to the streets to oppose Imamoglus. Despite the ban, thousands of people came together in Istanbul alone in front of the city administration under a high police force, as a DPA reporter reported on the site. There were clashes between students and police at Odtu University in Ankara. The protesters are also said to be in custody.
YouTube, Instagram and Messenger blocked
At the same time, Turkey has clearly banned and filtered some internet offers, perhaps difficult to disturb the communication of protesters and reach independent reporting. List about Netblocks At x And In mastodon Telegram, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter/X and Tikok as a service, which were rarely or unavailable within Turkey. So far, there has been no official confirmation of any internet ban by the Turkish government.
List of limited internet services in Türkiye
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This is not the first such case in this country. In August 2024, Instagram was closed in Türkiye, so that users in Türkiye could not reach Instagram without VPN. Lock may be related to the murder of Hamas leader. Türkiye maintains a good relationship with the Islamist Hamas at the time when Instagram accused the head of Hamas of blocking the sensation for the head of Hamas abroad. The stage was subordinate to censorship.
A few months later, in October 2024, the discord was blocked in Türkiye, but not for political reasons. Turkey suspected some discord users of sexual hair misconduct, but the operator of the platform refused to publish IP addresses and other data from the suspects. Therefore, access to discord in the country was prevented.
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