The Information and Communication Technologies Authority, which regulates the internet in Turkey, announced the block but did not provide a reason.
It comes a few days after an aide to Turkey’s president criticised the Meta-owned social media platform for preventing users in Turkey from posting messages mourning Haniyeh.
There was no immediate comment from Instagram, which has more than 50 million users in Turkey, a nation with a population of 85 million.
Image: Mourners at Haniyeh’s funeral in Tehran
Unlike its Western allies, Turkey does not consider Hamas to be a terror organisation.
A strong critic of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the group as “liberation fighters”.
Turkey is observing a day of mourning for Haniyeh on Friday, with flags flown at half-mast.
The twin assassinations of Hamas’s Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr have sent tensions in the Middle East spiralling, as the war in Gaza continues to kill thousands.
Turkey has a track record of censoring social media and websites. Hundreds of thousands of domains have been blocked since 2022, according to the Freedom of Expression Association, a non-profit organisation.
The video-sharing platform YouTube was also blocked in the country from 2007 to 2010.
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