The Freedom of Expression Association, which monitors local censorship on the internet, said the outage on Alphabet’s Google began around 10am (7am GMT) in Turkey.

Tracking website Downdetector said services were mostly restored before 9am GMT, with the number of reports of service disruptions decreasing from 7.51 am 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 US-based Ookla, reported an uptick in Google disruptions from around 9am (7am GMT).