Europe faces disruption in Google services

Google services including YouTube experienced widespread downtime across Turkey and parts of Europe on Thursday, September 04, 2025 morning, with disruptions beginning around 10:00 a.m. local time and lasting approximately two hours.

The internet monitoring agencies from EU and government reports exposed the failure in services affected users in Turkey, Greece, Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, and parts of Ukraine and Russia.

Omer Fatih Sayan, Turkey's Deputy Minister for Transport and Infrastructure confirmed the country's cybersecurity watchdog had formally requested a technical report from Google regarding the incident.

Sayan revealed the concentrated disruptions across southeastern Europe and western regions of Turkey, with sporadic outages reported elsewhere.

Internet freedom monitor Freedom of Expression Association first flagged the disruption in Turkey.

Downdetector, a tracking service stated: "Reports peaked around 07:51 a.m. GMT before services began recovering toward 09:00 a.m. GMT."

German outage tracker Allestoerungen similarly recorded significant disruptions starting at 09:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT).

Users across affected regions reported difficulties accessing YouTube, Gmail-linked contacts, and various Google websites during the outage period.

The digital services company has not yet publicly commented on the cause or scope of the technical issues of the most significant regional disruptions for Google services in 2025.