This was announced by Deputy Minister of Transport, Omar Fatih Sayan, in a post on the Turkish platform “NSosyal,” according to the Anadolu Agency. He added, “We are closely monitoring the situation. These outages highlight the importance of local and national products and software.”
A number of users around the world experienced a sudden disruption in Google services this Thursday morning, including the search engine, YouTube platform, and Gmail service. Reports were concentrated in several African and Asian countries, amid conflicting estimates regarding the causes of the outage, according to Western media.
According to Downdetector, a platform specializing in tracking digital service outages, thousands of reports were recorded from users reporting difficulty or inability to access essential services. Technical reports indicated that the outage began around 10:30 AM this Thursday, September 4th.
Reports of Gmail outages alone exceeded 30,000 within one hour, while YouTube outage reports surpassed 70,000 during the same period.
