Turkey Literally Broke the Internet

Tech support? Hello?

Last week, the country of Turkey experienced a social media snafu when two members of the Turkish leftist group DHKP/C (which is recognized by the U.S. as a terrorist organization), took a public prosecutor hostage in his Istanbul courthouse office.

According to The Daily Dot, a photo depicting one member pressing his gun against prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz’s temple started to go viral.

So what’s a government to do? Issue an immediate gag order on news of the incident. Yes, they broke the Internet: all news sites and social media platforms were blocked on Turkish search engines.

Not even the cracked customer service crew at Comcast could help:

“Media groups … publishing these photos are almost doing the propaganda of a terrorist organization,” presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said in a news conference Monday.

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