Turkey appears to have restored access to Meta-owned Instagram after blocking the app on August 2.
Abdulkadir Uraloglu, the country's Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, said: Posted The ban is scheduled to be lifted at 9:30 p.m. Turkish time today.
Cyber Security Monitor NetBlocks Say“According to real-time metrics, Instagram is gradually being restored on ISPs in #Turkey after talks between authorities and Meta over the removal of terrorist content and the restoration of unfairly closed accounts.”
The ban comes after Turkish officials accused Instagram of censoring posts expressing condolences over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Uraloglu wrote today that the Turkish government blocked Instagram because the company “did not respond to our requests due to the policies it implemented in the scope of cataloging crimes” (translated by Google). He added that following discussions with Instagram, “our demands, especially those related to cataloging crimes, will be met, and they have promised to cooperate with us in the censorship imposed on their users.”
Uraloglu’s post does not specify what crime or content censorship was being discussed. Instagram did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
