All Google Services Now Banned in Turkey
Line BreakAuthor: Mark Ellison (10 Articles)
Mark is the Project Manager at Travelfusion. Originally from the United States, Mark joined the company in 2006. You can find his full biography here.
This morning we received word that Turkey’s Telecommunication Ministry has been blocking IP addresses belonging to Google as of late last Thursday. As a result, all Google services — including Mail, Maps, Analytics, Docs, Sites, browser tool bars, and a variety of services integrated into other websites — have been inaccessible or extremely slow loading for internet users located in Turkey. National Turk lists all the Google services which have been reported to be operating slowly or banned outright by the Telecommunications Ministry.
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We, too, have felt the effects of this ban. Turkish users of Travelfusion.com and our regional partner site Seyahatix.com, both of which utilise Google Analytics to monitor website traffic, have reported very slow page loads and general instability. To better serve our Turkish users during this worrying period, and to help speed up our site for everyone else, we will soon be upgrading to the Google Analytics asynchronous tracking scripts.
Update: TechCrunch reports that this was all just a clumsy mistake by Google, and that the Turkish government is holding Google to task to fix it!
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