ISTANBUL, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Some Google services

including YouTube temporarily went down on Thursday in Turkey

and some parts of Europe including Greece and Germany, according

to a Turkish deputy minister, internet monitors and users in the

regions.

The Freedom of Expression Association, which monitors local

censorship on the internet, said the outage on Alphabet's Google

began around 10:00 a.m. (0700 GMT) in Turkey.

Tracking website Downdetector said services were mostly

restored before 0900 GMT, with the number of reports of service

disruptions decreasing from 0751 GMT onward.

Google did not immediately respond to an emailed request for

comment on the matter.

Turkey's cyber security watchdog has requested a technical

report from Google, deputy transport and infrastructure minister

Omer Fatih Sayan said on X.

A map posted by Sayan showed Turkey, large parts of

southeast Europe, and some locations in Ukraine, Russia and

western Europe as affected.

There were sporadic outages in Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and

Romania, including problems accessing websites, YouTube and some

phone contacts linked to Gmail, users there said.

In Germany, outage tracking website allestoerungen.de, a

division of U.S.-based Ookla, reported an uptick in Google

disruptions from around 09:00 a.m. (0700 GMT).