Turkey blocks app NOS

hilversum - The website and the NIS app are blocked in Turkey. Reported that the broadcaster on Twitter and on its own site. According to the NIS has to do with the blockade images that are online for the murder of the Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov Monday in Ankara.

The Turkish authorities announced following the murder of a media blockade off, which means that media in Turkey are not allowed to messages. The NIS website would be blocked by the Turkish regulator BTK because the NIS has aired footage of the assassination and has put online. The NOS material also went on social media in Turkey viral.

Media in Turkey have more to do with blockages. It often happens that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube temporarily inaccessible. This is done without the intervention of the courts. Usually the blockades last a few days.

The NIS has asked the Turkish embassy in the Netherlands for clarification and want the blockade lifted as soon as possible. RTL News site is not blocked in Turkey, says a spokesman for RTL, while subsequent to see images of the assassination.