As Turkish fighter jets bombed the  Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, Turkey blocked number of Kurdish news websites and many users had difficulty in accessing Twitter and Facebook for an unspecified reason.

The decision imposed early July 25 by Turkey’s Telecommunications Directorate (TİB), a government-controlled Internet watchdog, targeted news websites based not only in Turkey, but also in northern Iraq.

Blocked websites include Rudaw, BasNews, DİHA, ANHA, Özgür Gündem newspaper, Yüksekova Haber, Sendika.org and RojNews. When trying to access one of the websites, a user from Turkey can only see a message that the TİB blocked it as an “administrative measure.”