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.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 06 2016, @11:04PM
That's funny, that is. China can't manage it but Turkey thinks it can?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @02:07PM
China didn't have an attempted coup this year.
A forum poster remarked that VPN connections from China are "for the most part blocked or otherwise degraded these days."
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-safe-to-use-a-VPN-to-surf-the-internet-in-China [quora.com]
The Tor project has been in a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese censors.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/427413/how-china-blocks-the-tor-anonymity-network/ [technologyreview.com]
In Turkey, "the editor-in-chief, a cartoonist, and seven board members" of a major newspaper were arrested (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/05/500839345/9-journalists-and-executives-at-a-leading-turkish-newspaper-are-arrested [npr.org]). If the present restrictions on Internet use turn out to be inadequate, stricter measures (such as a white-list or an attempt to totally block connections to foreign hosts) might be undertaken.