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Google services were down in Turkey, parts of Europe
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 4, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 4, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Google services, including YouTube, faced outages in Turkey and parts of Europe. The disruptions began around 10:00 a.m. and were mostly resolved within a few hours.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Some Google services including YouTube temporarily went down on Thursday in Turkey and some parts of Europe including Greece and Germany, according to a Turkish deputy minister, internet monitors and users in the regions.
The Freedom of Expression Association, which monitors local censorship on the internet, said the outage on Alphabet's Google began around 10:00 a.m. (0700 GMT) in Turkey.
Tracking website Downdetector said services were mostly restored before 0900 GMT, with the number of reports of service disruptions decreasing from 0751 GMT onward.
Google did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment on the matter.
Turkey's cyber security watchdog has requested a technical report from Google, deputy transport and infrastructure minister Omer Fatih Sayan said on X.
A map posted by Sayan showed Turkey, large parts of southeast Europe, and some locations in Ukraine, Russia and western Europe as affected.
There were sporadic outages in Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania, including problems accessing websites, YouTube and some phone contacts linked to Gmail, users there said.
In Germany, outage tracking website allestoerungen.de, a division of U.S.-based Ookla, reported an uptick in Google disruptions from around 09:00 a.m. (0700 GMT).
(Reporting by Can Sezer in Istanbul; Additional reporting by Reuters bureaus across Europe; Writing by Jonathan Spicer; Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Jan Harvey)
Some Google services, including YouTube, temporarily went down in Turkey and parts of Europe.
The outage began around 10:00 a.m. local time in Turkey.
According to Downdetector, services were mostly restored before 09:00 GMT, with disruptions decreasing after 07:51 GMT.
Turkey's cyber security watchdog requested a technical report from Google regarding the outage.
Sporadic outages were reported in Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania, affecting access to websites and Gmail-linked phone contacts.
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