The ban was implemented by a number of the country’s leading ISPs on Monday afternoon, the Internet Service Providers Union (ESB) Secretary General Bülent Kent told the Hurriyet Daily News.
All service providers are expected to implement the ban soon, he said.
A total of 166 websites that published the slain prosecutor’s pictures will be blocked, according to a recent court ruling seen by the Hurriyet Daily News.
Prominent Turkish prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz was taken hostage by the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP/C) last Tuesday. He suffered five gunshot wounds and died in hospital, after a gunfight during the storming of an Istanbul court. His captors were also killed during the operation.
The official was leading the case of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old protester, who died from injuries sustained during the anti-government demonstrations of 2013. Elvan was in a coma for nine months and died in March last year. He subsequently became a symbolic figure for the street protest movement.
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