Turkey Blocks Access To Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook (itpro.co.uk)

Turkey has blocked Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube, according to censorship monitoring site, Turkey Blocks. From a report on IT Pro: The group broke the news today around 1am local time, saying the government was throttling these services. This is a method of slowing down websites to the extent that they become difficult to use or unusable. Initially, issues with the social media and messaging apps detected on national provider TTNet, Turkcell, and they were soon reported on other big internet providers as well. The block follows the arrest of 11 politicians from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) overnight in the south-east of the country. Many reports are linking the social media block to these arrests, with the HDP the main opposition party to that of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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As a reminder...

[darkain]

As a reminder for anyone who may need Facebook for communication of any kind (especially in countries attempting to prevent free speech), Facebook officially runs a Tor hidden service.

Details: https://www.facebook.com/faceb...

Tor Hidden Service: https://facebookcorewwwi.onion...
(or as they call it, Facebook Core WWW Infrastructure)

Re:Again?

[Nidi62]

I think it's almost certain that the coup wasn't really a coup. It's a shame, Turkey was really making strides towards being a true modern democracy until Erdogan came along.

This coup also had the side effect of allowing Erdogan to purge a lot of the top military brass and replace them with officers more loyal to him. This is important as the Turkish military had traditionally played the role of maintaining Turkey's secular status by undertaking coups. He has pretty much assured that there will be no military intervention any time soon in domestic politics.