Officials have accused the platform of preventing users from posting condolences over the death of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.
Turkish authorities have blocked Instagram after officials in Ankara accused the platform of “censorship” in the ongoing Middle East conflict.
According to Türkiye’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), access to the social media platform was blocked on Friday. No formal reason was given for the move, nor any indication of how long the ban would last.
Fahrettin Altun, the country’s communications chief, had slammed the Meta-owned network earlier this week for its response to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader. Haniyeh was killed in a bombing in Tehran on Wednesday, with Hamas and Iran accusing Israel of orchestrating the attack. West Jerusalem has neither denied nor confirmed involvement, but has repeatedly vowed to destroy Islamist “terrorists”who threaten the Jewish state.
