Access to Instagram has been blocked in Turkey

Turkey's information technology regulator did not specify the reason or duration of the Instagram ban.

On August 2, Turkey blocked access to the Instagram social network, and the platform's mobile application also became unavailable. This is reported by Reuters.

The information technology regulator did not specify the reason or duration of the ban.

The publication writes that this step was made after comments on Wednesday, July 31, by the head of the Turkish President Fahrettin Altun's Directorate of Communications Directorate, who criticized the platform for the decision to block publications of condolences in connection with the killing of the leader of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh.