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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

The TurkeyBlocks monitoring network has detected restrictions on access to multiple social media services [turkeyblocks.org] 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 [salon.com], accompanied by raids of the HDP headquarters in Ankara.

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

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