Access to social media sites Twitter and Whatsapp was blocked in Turkey on Friday, an internet monitoring group said, following the detentions of 11 pro-Kurdish lawmakers in the mainly Kurdish southeast overnight.
Access was being blocked by throttling, an expert from the monitoring group Turkey Blocks said, a method of slowing certain websites to the point where they are unusable.
A widespread difficulty in reaching Facebook was also reported after the detentions started at midnight.
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SMI
Nov 04, 2016 11:48am
Social media is the branch of main root of terrorism in Muslim worlds
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TZaman
Nov 04, 2016 12:50pm
Turkey is slowly becoming autocratic country under the current promising president who turned into a megalomaniac --- a usual feature of a Muslim ruler.
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Mahmood
Nov 04, 2016 01:07pm
Sadly, Erdogan has gone too far. Turkey is turning into a dictatorship, since the clamp down following the attempted coup in July. That's not going to pave the way for Turkey to become member of the EU.
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Taimur
Nov 04, 2016 01:08pm
It will take years for Turkey to get rid of dictatorship. The roots are deep.
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Dori
Nov 04, 2016 02:36pm
@SMI really.. how can you explain
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Hassan (Karachi)
Nov 04, 2016 03:52pm
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villian. Erdogan, you have overstayed your time. And you yourself have tainted your legacy. Shame.
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Pak
Nov 04, 2016 08:18pm
everyweek turkey emerges new enemy, in fighting with dhp, pkk, military coup, russia, gullen usa, asad regime, isis, huriyet, local crackdowns, now social media, iraq mosul, please stop erdogan.
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Afzal Mir
Nov 04, 2016 11:14pm
Erdogan - A full bloom dictator. No wonder he was close to Sharif brothers.
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white noise
Nov 05, 2016 09:37am
Turkey - the modern day definition of the word oppression. Guess they learned nothing from the fall of the Ottomans
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