Turkey has reportedly blocked Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp nationwide
Internet monitoring group Turkey Block reports that Turkey has restricted access to Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube across the country since 1:20AM there (UTC+2). Connections to those services are being throttled or slowed down drastically by internet service providers, rendering them inaccessible. Confirmed: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube blocked by throttling in #Turkey – developing incidenthttps://t.co/XA9JZaxn54 pic.twitter.com/3sAjwikGY5 — Turkey Blocks (@TurkeyBlocks) November 3, 2016 The shutdown is believed be connected to the overnight detention of 11 Members of Parliament belonging to the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Salon reports that in the wake of a failed coup…
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