{"id":141082,"date":"2025-09-08T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141082\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:30:06","slug":"access-to-x-youtube-other-online-platforms-restricted-in-turkey-internet-monitor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141082\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to X, YouTube other online platforms restricted in Turkey, internet monitor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Netblocks, a global internet monitor, said on Monday that access to online platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and WhatsApp has been restricted in Turkey on multiple networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Netblocks said the access blockage came as the main opposition Republican People&#8217;s Party (CHP) called for rallies after police set up barricades in areas around the party&#8217;s headquarters in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to data from Turkey&#8217;s Freedom of Expression Association, which monitors local censorship on the internet, the access problems began at 2045 GMT on Sunday, with bandwidth being throttled for the platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Turkey&#8217;s Access Providers Union, responsible for implementing internet blocking decisions, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the access restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Can Sezer and Ezgi Erkoyun; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Tom Hogue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Netblocks, a global internet monitor, said on Monday that access to online platforms including X, YouTube,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[10414,87839,4136,174,87840,87841,73060,74,1153,12807,9280],"class_list":["post-141082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-freedom-of-expression-association","tag-instagram","tag-internet","tag-internet-monitor","tag-netblocks","tag-online-platforms","tag-technology","tag-tiktok","tag-turkey","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}