Google services including YouTube, Gmail and Maps were restored on Thursday following a widespread outage that left millions of users across dozens of countries unable to access key platforms.
Monitoring site DownDetector reported a sharp surge in complaints at around 10:00 local time (07:00 GMT), as users struggled to connect to Chrome, Google Translate and other services. The disruption, which lasted for about an hour, eased at roughly 08:00 GMT.
Turkey’s Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Ömer Fatih Sayan, confirmed the outage, saying it had affected both Türkiye and much of Europe.
“Google, Android and related services are experiencing an outage across Türkiye and Europe. Our National Cyber Incident Response Centre has requested a technical report from Google regarding the cause. We are monitoring the situation closely,” Sayan said.
Google has not yet commented on the cause of the outage.
Outage tracker Outage Report noted:
“There was a surge in reports starting at 07:10 GMT and lasting for the past hour. We received complaints from Türkiye, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Croatia, Serbia, Armenia, Romania, the Netherlands, Germany and 38 other countries.”
Some users also reported difficulty accessing Spotify during the blackout.
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