Turkey has reportedly blocked Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp nationwide


Internet monitoring group Turkey Block reports that Turkey has restricted access to Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp  and YouTube  across the country.Connections to those services are being throttled or slowed down drastically by internet service providers, rendering them inaccessible.The shutdown is believed be connected to the overnight detention of 11 Members of Parliament belonging to the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Salon reports that in the wake of a failed coup in July to overthrow the right-wing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, opposition politicians have warned that the nation’s authoritarian leader is is implementing a slow-motion counter-coup, restructuring the entire government and circumventing democracy.