Turkey has blocked Instagram amid a dispute over Hamas-related content

Instagram is blocked in Turkey amid a dispute over Hamas-related content material on the platform. The app has been inaccessible within the nation since Friday morning. Netblocks, a corporation that tracks web and social media outages, that Instagram had been restricted within the nation.

Turkish regulators didn’t specify why the block was in place however, as Bloomberg , the crackdown on Instagram seems to be associated to its dealing with of Hamas-related posts on the platform. On Friday, Turkey’s head of communications Fahrettin Altun, stated in on X that Instagram “is actively stopping folks from posting messages of condolences” for Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas chief who was killed earlier this week.

Meta hasn’t publicly commented on the block.

It’s not the primary time Turkish authorities have blocked a serious social media service. Twitter was briefly blocked within the nation following a devastating earthquake that killed 1000’s of individuals. YouTube and Twitter had been additionally blocked