Facebook and Twitter users in Turkey found access to their accounts blocked Monday as a court in the country put a ban on those social media sites after images of a car bombing in Ankara were posted online over the weekend.
The broadcasters CNN Turk and NTV said the sites were blocked after the posting of photos of a car bombing on Sunday that killed at least 34 people and wounded 125 others in Ankara. It was the second attack of this type to hit Turkey s capital in less than a month.
Turkey has taken such measures to restrict social media access after terrorist actions before. In 2015, the country temporarily blocked the use of Twitter and YouTube after the posting of photographs of a prosecutor held by left-wing militants.
Reports said initial evidence for the attack pointed at the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought the government in Ankara for years for an autonomous Kurdish region in the county. Turkey, a largely Muslim nation, is a NATO member and U.S. ally.
Photo: Rescuers walk by the wreckage of a bus at the scene of the blast in Ankara on March 13. (EROL UCEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
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