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.
Confirmed: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube blocked by throttling in #Turkey – developing incidenthttps://t.co/XA9JZaxn54 pic.twitter.com/3sAjwikGY5
— Turkey Blocks (@TurkeyBlocks) November 3, 2016
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been repeatedly criticised over curbs on social media.
