You mightiness endure thinking why???
Because using this app inwards Turkish is illegal since final year.
The background even out begins here...
Remember the deadliest Turkey's failed coup attempt?
In July 2016, a department of the Turkish armed services launched a coordinated operation—by deploying soldiers, tanks on the streets of major Turkish cities—to topple the regime in addition to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Turkish regime blamed Muhammed Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish preacher who lives inwards the United States, for leading the July 15-16 attempted coup, though Gülen denied whatever involvement.
In the aftermath of the coup attempt, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MİT), the Turkish word means investigated in addition to institute that the ByLock messaging app was used every bit a communication tool yesteryear tens of thousands of Gülen motility followers to coordinate the coup.
Since thus the Turkish regime has detained 75,000 people inwards an unprecedented crackdown for downloading the ByLock app, which has been declared illegal, according to the Guardian.
Arrested people includes civil servants, judges, police pull officers, soldiers, menage makers, in addition to businessmen, who allegedly participated inwards the failed armed services coup attempt.
For those unaware, ByLock was i of the many encrypted messaging apps available to download for gratuitous on Apple's App Store in addition to Google's Play Store in addition to was downloaded over 600,000 times betwixt Apr 2014 in addition to Apr 2016, according to a study yesteryear British estimator forensics expert, Thomas K. Moore.
It turns out that the Turkish authorities were able to cleft ByLock because of its weak encryption algorithm in addition to managed to decrypt 10 meg encrypted messages, which Pb to show against thousands of rebels in addition to hugger-mugger Gülenist operatives.
The Turkish regime also believes that ByLock has been created yesteryear the Fetullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), for delivering Gülen's messages alongside his followers every bit good every bit to learn them on how to acquit out plots against anti-Gülenists.
According to a legal regard published inwards London, arresting people on the footing of but downloading an encrypted messaging app violates their human rights nether Article five of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which guarantees the correct to liberty.
