Hello and welcome to the details of Turkiye blocks Instagram for second day, accusing platform of ignoring demands and now with the details
Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - This picture taken in Istanbul on August 2, 2024, shows a web page of the Instragram appplication after it was blocked by Turkish authorities. — AFP pic
ISTANBUL, Aug 3 — Instagram users in Turkiye found access to the social media network blocked for a second day today, following censorship accusations against the US company from a high-ranking Turkish official.
The BTK communications authority announced on its website yesterday that the Meta-owned platform had been frozen, without giving any reason.
But Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said yesterday Instagram had ignored government demands for it to remove certain posts.
“Our country has values and sensitivities. Despite our warnings, they did not take care of criminal content.
“We blocked access. When they abide by our laws, we’ll lift the ban.”
On Wednesday, the president’s communications director, Fahrettin Altun, had accused Instagram of censure, saying it was “preventing people from publishing messages of condolence for the martyr (Hamas leader Ismail) Haniyeh”.
“This is a very clear and obvious attempt at censure,” Altun said on X.
Haniyeh, the political leader of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and a close ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was killed in Tehran on Wednesday in an attack blamed on Israel.
Erdogan decreed a national day of mourning in memory of Haniyeh, who played a key role in talks aimed at ending nearly 10 months of war in Gaza.
An anonymous BTK source denied the move was due to Instagram blocking posts about Haniyeh, telling website Medyascope that it was due to “insults to Ataturk”, the founding father of modern Turkiye, and “crimes” including “drug games (and) paedophilia”.
The social-democrat and nationalist opposition parties, and the Ankara legal profession petitioned the courts on Friday evening for the freeze to be lifted.
According to Turkish media, 50 million of the country’s 85 million people have an Instagram account.
This is not the first time that Turkish authorities have temporarily blocked access to social media sites, including Facebook, X and Wikipedia.
Erdogan’s government is regularly accused of muzzling freedom of expression. — AFP
These were the details of the news Turkiye blocks Instagram for second day, accusing platform of ignoring demands for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new.
It is also worth noting that the original news has been published and is available at Malay Mail and the editorial team at AlKhaleej Today has confirmed it and it has been modified, and it may have been completely transferred or quoted from it and you can read and follow this news from its main source.
