About an hour ago there was an explosion in İstiklal Street, #Istanbul. According to the early information and images there were several casualties and likely a bomb dropped in a bag.

But right now we can’t have more information because government media watchdog banned any news about it and according to my OONI Probe test results from couple mins ago, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube access is blocked in #Turkey.

@ahmetasabanci Instagram appears to be affected as well, are you aware of any more platforms that are affected?
@lumiukko it looks like most messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram) are really slow or not fully working as well.