WhatsApp

Due to the fact that social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are inaccessible in China, there exists a whole ecosystem of social networking and messaging platforms that are immensely popular in and around China but hardly known anywhere else in the world.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Aug. 15 issued detention warrants for 33 former employees of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) as part of its probe into the Fetullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).

Messaging application WhatsApp which is owned by Facebook was partly blocked in China as an act of censorship from the government, writes Bloomgerg.

Facebook Inc said on June 27 that 2 billion people are regularly using its flagship service, marching past another milestone in its growth from a college curiosity in the United States to the world's largest social media network. 

Around 200 suspects have been detained after a huge dawn sweep marked as the city's largest ever anti-drug operation by Ankara's narcotics police on June 20, police have said, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.     
Ankara Police Chief Mahmut Karaaslan told reporters following the raids that the number of detentions was a record rate for a single police operation in Turkey.      

The European Commission on Thursday fined US social media giant Facebook EUR 110 million ($120 million) for providing incorrect and misleading information on its takeover of WhatsApp, AFP reported.

A new survey about the texting mobile application WhatsApp prepared by Turkey's communications authority has stirred a debate amid rumors that the service could be blocked.

WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the largest ever batch of confidential documents on the CIA, revealing the breadth of the agency's ability to hack smartphones and popular social media messaging apps such as WhatsApp.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son Bilal Erdoğan's father-in-law, Orhan Uzuner, has formed a platform to prevent a "possible coup attempt." 

The platform, "Kardeş Kal Türkiye" (Let's stay as brothers, Turkey), aims to bring people out on the streets in the event of a possible coup bid, according to Uzuner.

A German neo-Nazi was sentenced to eight years jail on Feb. 9 for an arson attack on a sports hall that had been designated to house refugees.

Maik Schneider, 29, a local politician of the far-right NPD party, received an additional term of one year and six months for other xenophobic crimes.