Turkey opens up Instagram after talks to address its concerns about crime and censorship

Turkey has restored access to Instagram after the social network agreed to meet the country’s requirements regarding censorship and crime-related content, reports. The Minister of Transport announced this agreement in a post on X. Instagram has been banned for a little over a week; users in the country, but no official explanation of the decision was given at the time.

However, the block came after Turkey’s communications chief, , accused the platform of criticizing posts that expressed sympathy for Ismail Haniyeh, the recently assassinated leader of Hamas. In Saturday’s post, Uraloglu expressed concern about the catalog’s crime-related content – including murder, sexual harassment, drug trafficking and torture, according to – and censorship imposed on Instagram users. , which first reported that Instagram was blocked in Turkey earlier this month, confirmed on Saturday that access had begun to return.