Hacker group Anonymous launches DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on some Turkish government websites. Move comes a few days before Turkey holds parliamentary elections on Sunday. Turkey’s Internet regulator that drew up the filtering plan was not accessible late Thursday. The group did not respond to an e-mailed request for comment. Turkish government is protesting against new Internet rules that comes into effect from Aug. 22, and will require users to choose one of four filters before accessing the Internet. The new filtering systems will make it possible to keep records of everyone’s Internet activity, it added.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2128723/turkish-government-sites-targeted-by-anonymous.html