Screenshot from Wikipedia's English-language page on Turkey. Just two weeks after a referendum in which voters narrowly approved far-reaching constitutional amendments that will increase the power of the presidency, a Turkish court ruled that the volunteer-driven international online encyclopedia Wikipedia should be blocked in Turkey. Amid growing tension between the pro and anti-government camps, the decision provided citizens with yet another snapshot of their future under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AKP party as they adjust to growing political upheaval and the extension of emergency rule in the country by a further three months. Hurriyet Daily News reported that the website ban was ordered by an Ankara court on April 29 “after the site’s administration refused to remove two English language pages which claimed that Turkey channeled support to jihadists in Syria”. The Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications appeared to confirm this viewpoint when it said the site was blocked for “becoming an information source with acting with groups conducting a smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena.” These are the lines that got #Wikipedia blocked in Turkey. All about the illegal weapons transfer of the Turkish Intelligence though Syria. https://t.co/GlDKZnmnWR — Can Dündar (@candundaradasi) May 2, 2017 As a result, Turkey joined China as one of the few countries in the world to order a complete block on Wikipedia, rather than simply censoring individual pages. The sledgehammer attack on the resource echoes the zeal with which the government seemingly blocked Twitter after Erdogan promised to “wipe out” the social media service in 2014. According to a Wikipedia page on the topic of the website's censorship by countries across the world, previous censorship attempts by Turkey had only been partial, and apparently focused on Turkish-language articles about human genitalia. The block comes at a time of deepening political schism in Turkey, after Erdogan lashed out against OSCE/ODIHR observers and their reports of vote fraud in the country's tightly contested referendum. President Erdogan, Turkey's leading politician for the last 14 years, publicly told them as well as other international actors and critics of the government to “know your place”. The Turkish vote has been tainted by alleged widespread fraud. Here we outline the claims https://t.co/uQEWG6yGo4 — Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) April 18, 2017 Turkey post-election: OSCE said “unlevel playing field”; Pres Erdogan told OSCE to go away; emergency rule extended; protests breaking out.. https://t.co/5ZVnMYf9ZN — Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) April 18, 2017 The AKP government's strong aversion to the Internet can be traced back at least as far as the Gezi park protests in 2013 in which social networks helped mobilize opposition to the government in one of the first major tests of Erdogan's enduring leadership. Just months later, they had reason to hate it some more after recordings allegedly capturing Erdogan and his son discussing illicit financial schemes went viral across YouTube and Twitter, triggering the Turkish leader's now infamous broadside against the micro-blogging service Twitter. Turkey has blocked both YouTube and Twitter in the past, the latter on multiple occasions. According to EngelliWeb (a platform no longer available online that tracked websites blocked since 2006) there are over 100,000 blocked websites in Turkey today. Internet speeds have slowed considerably, meanwhile, and are especially sluggish during anti-government rallies, counter-extremism operations or elections, pointing to likely interference by state actors. In November 2016, the government shut down the internet in the Kurdish-populated south-east of the country for 10 days. Turkish netizens were quick to turn to Twitter to channel their frustrations with the court decision blocking Wikipedia. Dünyanın en yoğun kullandığı bilgi kaynağı @Wikipedia Türkiye'de yasaklanmış. Amaç ne cahil kalmak mı? https://t.co/XiIGJUelvL — basketvole (@basketvole) 29 апреля 2017 г. World's most heavily used information source Wikipedia blocked in Turkey. Whats the aim, to stay uninformed? Yasaklandım. Hep saklandım. Günaydın, gittm ben.. https://t.co/SVm3V5y08E — Yiğit Kalafatoğlu (@yicit) 29 апреля 2017 г. I have been banned. I have been in hiding all the time. Good morning, I am leaving (play on the words of a popular pop song) Wikipedia engelleten karanlık…https://t.co/0HgUXYzvke — Berkin Bozdoğan (@zuhuratbaba) 29 апреля 2017 г. The darkness that blocked Wikipedia… Wikipedia engellendi, evlilik programları kapatıldı. Bugünkü blokları James Harden bile yapamazdı. — Tayfur Aksoy (@Tayfuraksy) 29 апреля 2017 г.