Turkey has blocked Instagram, authorities in Ankara announce. No explanation is given, but an employee of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Meta-owned app of censorship regarding the Gaza War.
Many Turks are testifying in other social media on Friday morning that they cannot access Instagram, writes the news agency AFP.
According to the regime-loyal newspaper Sabah, the country's leadership is angry that Instagram removed positive posts about the deceased Hamas leader Ismail Haniya.
The Palestinian extremist movement Hamas is labeled as a terrorist organization in large parts of the Western world, but Erdogan has called its members freedom fighters.
