Turkey banned social media app Instagram:

The European country Turkey has banned the social media app Instagram. In an order issued on August 2, the Turkish government has blocked the domain of Instagram. The government has not given any explanation regarding the ban.

Turkey’s National Communication Authority posted this information on its website. After the order, many people in Turkey posted on X complaining about Instagram feed not loading.

Fahrettin Altun, communications director at the Turkish presidential office, on Wednesday accused Instagram’s parent company Meta of preventing people from posting condolence messages marking the death of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.

Ismail Haniyeh died on Tuesday in Iran’s capital Tehran. He was killed in an attack by Israel. Haniyeh was also close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

50 million users affected by Instagram ban

According to media reports from Turkey, 5 crore users have been affected due to the ban imposed on social media app Instagram. The total population of Turkey is approximately 8.5 crore. In such a situation, a large part of Turkey’s population uses Instagram.

There has been a flood of memes on the social media platform X regarding the ban. However, this is not the first time in Turkey that a social media app or website has been banned. Turkey has banned Wikipedia before as well. It banned Wikipedia between 2017 and 2020 due to articles related to extremism and the President.