By decision of the Directorate of Information Technologies of the Turkish government, access from Turkey to the popular social media Instagram has been suspended from today, August 2.
Officially no explanation was given. However, some media outlets and many users on the other social networking platform X are reporting that Instagram does not allow posts about the assassination of Hamas Politburo chief Ismail Haniya.
In a post yesterday, Wednesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman, Fahrettin Altun, blamed Instagram for “cutting” her posts about the Haniya assassination. In his post, the representative of the Turkish President said, among other things:
“I also strongly condemn the social media platform Instagram, which actively prevents people from posting messages of condolence on the death of Hamas leader Haniya, without citing any violation of its policy. This is censorship, plain and simple. We will defend freedom of speech against these platforms that have shown time and time again that they are primarily in the service of the global exploitative system of injustice.”
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