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Turkey has restored access to Instagram after the social media site agreed to meet the country\u2019s demands around censorship and crime-related content, <\/em><\/a> reports. Transport Minister <\/a> announced the agreement in a post on X. Instagram was blocked for a little over a week; users in the country <\/a>, but no official explanation for the decision was provided at the time.<\/p>\n However, the block came after Turkey\u2019s head of communications, <\/a>, accused the platform of censoring posts that expressed condolences for Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader who was recently killed. In the post on Saturday, Uraloglu cited concerns over content relating to catalog crimes \u2014 which include murder, sexual assault, drug trafficking and torture, according to <\/em><\/a> \u2014 and censorship imposed on Instagram users. <\/a>, which first reported that Instagram had been blocked in Turkey earlier this month, confirmed on Saturday that access had begun to return.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n