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**Turkey Blocks Instagram App: What’s Haniyeh’s Connection?**
The Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) announced today, Friday, that the social media platform Instagram has been blocked without providing reasons or specifying the duration of the ban. The platform’s mobile application is also unavailable.
This move follows statements made by Fahrettin Altun, the head of communications for the Turkish presidency, on Wednesday. He criticized the platform for what he described as its decision to prevent condolence posts regarding the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
Altun stated on the platform “X”: “This is simply censorship,” adding that Instagram did not justify its decision with any policy violation.
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Instagram, has not commented on the ban or Altun’s statements.
The Turkish authority published the decision, issued on August 2nd, on its website.
It is worth noting that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced on Wednesday the killing of Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard at his residence in Tehran after attending the inauguration ceremony of Iranian reformist President Masoud Bazeshkian.
—by/radwa sherif ✏️✏️📚
