Summary Google's Domain Name System service has been intercepted by Turkish Internet Service Providers.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google says Turkey has been intercepting its Internet domain, redirecting users to other sites in the latest battle between Ankara and Web giants.
In a weekend post on Google s security blog, software engineer Steven Carstensen said the company has received "several credible reports and confirmed with our own research that Google s Domain Name System (DNS) service has been intercepted by most Turkish ISPs (Internet Service Providers)."
Carstensen said the DNS server "tells your computer the address of a server it s looking for, in the same way that you might look up a phone number in a phone book."
"Imagine if someone had changed out your phone book with another one, which looks pretty much the same as before, except that the listings for a few people showed the wrong phone number," he added.
"That s essentially what s happened: Turkish ISPs have set up servers that masquerade as Google s DNS service."
The news came just days after Turkey banned YouTube after the Google-owned video-sharing website was used to spread damaging leaked audio files from a state security meeting debating possible military action in Syria.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily lashed out at his political opponents for leaking the recording.
Earlier this month, Turkey s telecommunications authority blocked access to the US social network Twitter under orders from Erdogan after opposition members used it to post telephone recordings implicating him in a major corruption scandal.
