Turkey has restored access to Instagram after the social media site agreed to meet the country’s demands around censorship and crime-related content, reports. Transport Minister announced the agreement in a post on X. Instagram was blocked for a little over a week; users in the country , but no official explanation for the decision was provided at the time.
However, the block came after Turkey’s head of communications, , accused the platform of censoring posts that expressed condolences for Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader who was recently killed. In the post on Saturday, Uraloglu cited concerns over content relating to catalog crimes — which include murder, sexual assault, drug trafficking and torture, according to — and censorship imposed on Instagram users. , which first reported that Instagram had been blocked in Turkey earlier this month, confirmed on Saturday that access had begun to return.
