Turkish ISPs Block Several Google Services?
According to numerous Twitter sources, as well as Turkish blogs, ISPs in Turkey have started blocking several Google services.
Google’s translation of one such report reveals that ISPs have sent emails to customers, informing them that the services have been blocked for legal reasons.
It’s currently unclear exactly which services have been blocked; one report claims that the unavailable services include Google Analytics, Mail and Docs. The same source claims that the Turkish government actually tried to block YouTube’s new IPs and (perhaps inadvertently) blocked a number of other Google services in the process.
*Update: according to commenter Emrah Gunduz, the unavailable services are “Google Translate, Sites, Code, AppEngine, Docs, Groups, Feedburner. Other Google services are reachable, but Analytics and Adsense are working slower.”
The news comes hot on the heels of Bangladesh and Pakistan’s blockade of Facebook. In Turkey, many popular sites such as YouTube and Last.FM have been blocked from time to time. Now, other Google services join the list; if the reports are true, this could cause numerous problems to individuals and companies who rely on using Google’s services in their work and daily life.
Thanks to Oğuz Serdar for the tip.
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Access to search engine Google has been limited and most of Google's online services cannot be accessed in Turkey. The access limitation happened due to the blocking of an IP set that belongs to Google. These IP addresses were shared between YouTube and other Google services.

The Turkish news site  reports that Turkey's Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TCP) (a government agency that manages Turkish ISPs) indefinitely shut off access to several Google services. The shut-off came after the banning of YouTube for alleged insults against Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. TCP released an official statement Friday, saying it had blocked access to some Google IP addresses "because of legal reasons". Under Turkish law, it is an offence to "insult Turkishness."

 states that the limited access to Google could be a result of the government trying to block specific DNS addresses that relate to Google, as part of its ongoing attempts to block YouTube. Since Google services share common software and IP addresses, the search engine itself suffers from access restrictions. Turkish citizens are concerned that this move of the governmental agency was another step towards a complete ban on Google, as exists in China.

Several Internet sites have been banned in Turkey in recent years, and although some of them were subsequently unbanned, most of them remain inaccessible. ''Engelli Web'', a website listing banned sites reports that currently YouTube (since May 2008),  (since June 26, 2009), and Spanish newspaper  (since May 14, 2010) are among the banned sites in Turkey. MySpace and  were also among banned sites for a period of time. Websites will be blocked following a court decision or if TCP decides to block on its behalf.

''RetweetToday'' reports that Turkish citizens on Twitter have also reported access problems. Comments about the blockage are being shared using hashtags such as ''TurkeyCensorGoogle'' and ''TurkeyGoogleBan'', as well as ''NoGoogleNoWeb''.