Turkey now blocking social media by hijacking Google DNS
Other global DNS requests also being routed to Turk Telekom
by Sean Gallagher - Mar 30 2014, 3:35pm EST
On Saturday, network monitoring firms BGPMon and Renesys both reported the discovery of a new stage in the governmental blocking of social media as Turkish citizens go to the polls this weekend. Turk Telekom is now rerouting requests to popular Domain Name Service servers outside the country—including’s Google’s public DNS server—so those requests instead go to a server within Turk Telekom’s network. This means that anyone within Turkey attempting to use Google DNS or a similar service as a way to gain access to Twitter or YouTube will instead be directed to a government DNS server where those services are blocked.
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