Words fail me! This is a serious impediment to search & rescuer efforts as well as coordination for money and other donations. The pretext given for the closure was that Twitter owed money to the Turkish government.

You can see the anger of locals where a mob reacts to Minister of Transportation’s visit: https://youtube.com/shorts/B7t9W7Qgpfs?feature=share

WhatsApp isage is ubiquitous in Turkey but it seems this morning people are seeing problems with that, too.