Turkey has restricted access to Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp across the country. Instagram and Twitter are also affected. Connections to those services are slowed down drastically, making them inaccessible.
The news came after a widespread of user started complaining about WhatsApp service failure in the country - the first time nationwide restrictions have been detected on the messaging app in recent years.
TurkeyBlocks monitoring probes have identified throttling at the ISP level as the source of this slowing down connections. It affects the majority of internet users in the country. The shutdown was first detected on national provider TTNet and subsequently on other major ISPs.
The attempt is connected to the overnight detention of 11 Members of Parliament belonging to the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) as part of an ongoing counter-terrorism investigation.
Internet restrictions are increasingly being used in Turkey to suppress media coverage of political incidents, and this is Turkey's second big attempt in recent times to shut down internet services due to politics in the country.
Previously, the country has blocked cloud storage services in an attempt to stop the leak of emails belonging to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Berat Albayrak.
