Anti-riot police officers stand guard as protesting university students gather to organize a march, one month after the arrest of Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, in Istanbul on Apr. 19, 2025. Kemal Aslan/AFP via Getty Images
Access to several major social media and messaging platforms has been restricted in Turkey following calls for rallies by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), according to a global internet monitoring group.
In a Sept. 7 post on social media platform Mastodon, NetBlocks, a global internet observatory, said that users across Turkey experienced disruptions on X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and WhatsApp, beginning late Sunday evening.
