Confirmed: network disruption in Turkey

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Active Incident

Confirmed: network disruption in Turkey

Turkey · January 7, 2026 · 54 days

IODA detected significant connectivity drop. 35 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.

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Evidence

86%

Anomaly Rate

52

Measurements

75%

Confidence

What This Means

86% of 52 network tests from Turkey failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 83+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda + censoredplanet

ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)

Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship

Detection TimeJanuary 7, 2026

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Corroborating Evidence (160)

Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis72 records

outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Tekirdag"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.01

Mar 2, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Istanbul"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.86

Feb 28, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Tunceli"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.02

Feb 25, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Iğdir"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.02

Feb 25, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Bayburt"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.02

Feb 25, 2026

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+ 67 more IODA records

Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research88 records

dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 77/77 probes anomalous (100.0%) for bbc.com"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

Mar 1, 2026

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dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 78/78 probes anomalous (100.0%) for binance.com"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

Mar 1, 2026

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dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 71/71 probes anomalous (100.0%) for facebook.com"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

Mar 1, 2026

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dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 79/79 probes anomalous (100.0%) for getlantern.org"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

Mar 1, 2026

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dns-blocking

"DNS blocking detected: 73/73 probes anomalous (100.0%) for google.com"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 1.00

Mar 1, 2026

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+ 83 more Censored Planet records

Affected Services (17)

BBCFacebookInstagramLanternMediumNew York TimesProton VPNProtonVPNPsiphonSignalTelegramThe GuardianTikTokTwitter/XWhatsAppXYouTube

Blocked Domains (22)

bbc.com binance.com facebook.com getlantern.org google.com instagram.com medium.com nytimes.com pornhub.com protonvpn.com psiphon.ca reddit.com signal.org substack.com telegram.org theguardian.com tiktok.com tumblr.com twitter.com whatsapp.comand 2 more

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What we cannot say

Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: network disruption in Turkey [TR-2026-0005]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/TR-2026-0005

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Confirmed: network disruption in Turkey

Evidence

What This Means

How We Detected This

Corroborating Evidence (160)

Affected Services (17)

Blocked Domains (22)

What we cannot say

Cite This Incident

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