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Turkey blocks Instagram after Hamas posts are deleted
Ankara Türkiye –
Turkey's communications authority on Friday blocked access to social media platform Instagram, the latest example of a crackdown on websites in the country.
The Information and Communications Technology Authority, which regulates the internet, announced its decision early Friday, without providing reasons.
The government-friendly Yeni Safak newspaper and other media outlets said access was blocked in response to Instagram's removal of posts by Turkish users expressing condolences over the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
The sanctions against Instagram's blocking policy were swift. The Information and Communication Technology Authority blocked access to Instagram, Yeni Safak reported in its online edition.
Earlier, Fahrettin Altun, presidential communications director and aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, strongly criticized the Meta-owned platform for blocking users in Turkey from posting condolence messages for Haniyeh.
Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said Instagram had ignored sensitivities and violated a list of serious crimes, which includes incitement to suicide, torture, obscenity, crimes against state security and sexual abuse of minors, among others. He did not specify which specific crime the platform allegedly violated.
“When they do not respect the laws and our regulations and do not take into consideration our societal sensitivities, we are obliged to make the necessary interventions,” he said.
The minister said that Turkish authorities were in contact with Instagram's representative in Türkiye.
“When they have met the conditions, we will lift the ban,” he said.
Uraloglu's deputy Omer Fatih Sayan wrote on X: We will do what is necessary to establish a social network that respects our values, that is free from disinformation, that is cleaner and safer.
Instagram, which has more than 50 million users in Turkey, a country of 85 million people, did not immediately comment.
Unlike its Western allies, Turkey does not consider Hamas a terrorist organization. Erdogan, who is a vocal critic of Israel's military actions in Gaza, has described the group as a group of liberation fighters.
The country observes a day of mourning for Haniyeh on Friday, during which flags are flown at half-mast.
Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul mayor and member of Turkey's main opposition party, denounced the decision to block Instagram, accusing the communications authority of acting as a censorship unit.
Social media is a platform that everyone uses for many purposes, including commerce and communication, Imamoglu wrote on X. It is unacceptable that a platform used by the entire country is arbitrarily shut down one morning.
Turkey has a history of censoring social media and websites. Hundreds of thousands of domains have been blocked since 2022, according to the Association for Freedom of Expression, a nonprofit organization of lawyers and human rights activists. The video-sharing platform YouTube was blocked from 2007 to 2010.
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