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Major internet access issues in Turkey as Cloudflare knocked offline

Date: 2017-06-05

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Author: IDFI

Posted Category : Local NGO representative,Other,Web-sites,Restricted/Blocked/Denied,Turkey,Asia,

The Turkey Blocks monitoring network has detected access failures affecting hundreds of websites hosted on the Cloudflare CDN including popular news sites Cumhuriyet, Diken, BirGun, several mobile apps and platform REST APIs as of 1:00AM local time.Service has been restored as of 2:15AM. The cause of the incident remains under investigation. Affected providers include TTNet and TurkSat/UyduNet, two major landline providers, while mobile services and other ISPs remained unaffected. At the time of writing, connections exhibited severe latency, with a page taking around three minutes to load under testing conditions. The services remained available outside at multiple vantage points outside of Turkey, although it’s unclear if other regions are affected; hence the extent of the outage and underlying cause is not yet known and the outage has not been attributed to any censorship scheme. Similar issues have previously been connected to attempts by authorities to block individual websites or filter specific content. More