ANKARA: The BTK communications authority said in a post on its website that “instagram.com has been blocked by a decision on the date of 02\/08\/2024”, without adding further details.<\/p>\n
Many users living in Turkey complained on the X platform that they could not refresh their Instagram feed, an issue verified by AFP<\/em> journalists.<\/p>\n The Turkish presidency’s communications director Fahrettin Altun on Wednesday hit out at Meta-owned Instagram, accusing the platform of “impeding people from publishing messages of condolence for the martyr Haniyeh”.<\/p>\n Ismail Haniyeh, the political chief of the armed Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and a close ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was killed in Tehran on Wednesday in an attack blamed on Israel.<\/p>\n “This is a very clear and obvious attempt at censure,” Altun said on X.<\/p>\n According to Turkish media, there are more than 50 million users signed up to Instagram in Turkey, out of a population of 85 million.<\/p>\n The decision sparked mockery on other social media networks such as X.<\/p>\n A meme showing a congested metro station with the tagline: “X when Turks wake up to find that Instagram is blocked”, began trending on the platform. “Instagram is blocked in Turkey, life is over”, wrote user “CringeOfMaster” alongside a picture of a grieving man.<\/p>\n Others mockingly asked Instagram users where they could see their doctored images now.<\/p>\n This is not the first time that Turkish authorities have blocked access to social media sites. Wikipedia was blocked between April 2017 and January 2020 over two articles that alleged a link between the presidency and extremism.<\/p>\n That caused shock in a country where Erdogan’s government is often accused of attacking civil freedoms due to the amount of online information that became inaccessible.<\/p>\n In April, Facebook owner Meta suspended its Threads social network in Turkey following a decision by authorities there to prevent it from sharing information with Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANKARA: The BTK communications authority said in a post on its website that “instagram.com has been blocked by a decision on the date of 02\/08\/2024”, without adding further details. Many users living in Turkey complained on the X platform that they could not refresh their Instagram feed, an issue verified by AFP journalists. The Turkish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":43612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[412,159,20023],"class_list":["post-43611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-turkey","tag-instagram","tag-turkey-blocks-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43614,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43611\/revisions\/43614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}