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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday November 05 2016, @07:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-pretty-fowl dept.

The TurkeyBlocks monitoring network has detected restrictions on access to multiple social media services Facebook, Twitter and YouTube throughout Turkey beginning Friday Nov 04 2016 1:20AM local time, ongoing as of Friday noon.

Restrictions on messaging services WhatsApp, Skype and Instagram have also now been detected, validating widespread user complaints about WhatsApp service failure in Turkey – the first time nationwide restrictions have been detected on the popular messaging apps in recent years.

The incident is believed to be related to the detention of multiple leaders of opposition political party HDP, accompanied by raids of the HDP headquarters in Ankara.

Such a sad turn of events for such a wonderful country.


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  • (Score: 1) by Drake_Edgewater on Saturday November 05 2016, @03:28PM

    by Drake_Edgewater (780) on Saturday November 05 2016, @03:28PM (#422858) Journal

    I went to Istanbul in July (you may recall a story about a space science meeting being cancelled, well since I had bought tickets I decided to go there anyway) and I couldn't check SN the whole week. I bet it's been blocked since then.

    It is such an amazing place, I can only hope they sort their issues soon.