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Turkey blocks Instagram after ‘censorship’ row

Top government official accused US-based company of blocking condolence posts on killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

The Federation of Turkey has with immediate effect blocked access to Popular social media platform, Instagram, the national communications authority said, after a top government official called out the social media platform for “blocking” Hamas-related content.

BTK announced the block on Friday, not stating reasons for the ban or how long it would last for

Sparked by reactionas on Wednesday by the Federation’s director of Communications, Fahrettin Altun, criticising the Meta-owned platform for what he called its decision to block condolence posts directed towards recently assassinated Hamas Leader , Ismail Haniyeh


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