Turkey has restored access to Instagram after the social media site agreed to comply with the country’s demands regarding censorship and crime-related content. reports. Minister of Transport X. announced the agreement in a post. Instagram was blocked for a little over a week; users in the country however, no official explanation of the decision was given at the time.
However, the blocking came after Turkey’s communications chief. accused the platform of censoring posts expressing condolences for the recently slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. In a post on Saturday, Uraloglu expressed concerns about content related to catalog crimes, including murder, sexual assault, drug trafficking and torture. — and Instagram users were censored. Instagram was blocked in Turkey at the beginning of this month, which was the first to report, and confirmed that access has started to return on Saturday.
