Great damage occurred on Thursday morning (04.09.2025) in its services Googlewith the Google search engine, the YouTube And Gmail is facing serious vacations for at least two hours in Eastern Europe, including Greece, and in Turkey.
According to the Reuters agency and the DownDendector and Allestoerungen.DE, Holidays hit google from the morningYouTube and Gmail. Their operation was gradually restored at noon.
Users on social networks published maps that showed the extent of the damage, which appears to have expanded to the Balkans, Greece and Turkey.
Oh well Google services are down for eastern Europe pic.twitter.com/RkGBQYe8D4
— Deyvian (@DeyvianD) September 4, 2025
It’s growing! #googledown https://t.co/OjigFd3LeW pic.twitter.com/sWmPkXKSRT
– Patricio Bruno (@patricioibruno) September 4, 2025
Turkey at the forefront
In Turkey, the holidays started around 10:00 local time. The Union for Freedom of Expression, NGOs that monitors internet censorship, confirmed the magnitude of the damage, clarifying that it has influenced all Google services, which belongs to the Alphabet group.
Google, Android and its affiliated services are experiencing a deduction covering Türkiye and the European region.
Our Center for Intervention in National Cyber Events (@trcert) He requested a technical report from Google for the interruption.
We follow the process closely.
These deductions are domestic and national… pic.twitter.com/IrrYFCXqBK
– Dr. Ömer Fatih Sayan (@ofatihsayan) September 4, 2025
The Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Ömer Fatih Sayan, reacted immediately by posting on X, stating that he has asked Google detailed technical report. A map published by the Turkish authorities showed that the problems were not only limited to Turkey, but also expanded to Greece, the Balkans, Ukraine, Russia and Western Europe.
Vacation in Europe as well
In Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania, many users reported access to youtube and Google, as well as gmail -related communications. In Germany, the website allestoerungen.de (a subsidiary of American Ookla) recorded a sharp increase in reports from 9:00 local time.
Similar testimonies were also in the United Kingdom and France, where users said they had difficulty loading their emails or searching. In some cases youtube have appeared “5xx Server Error” error messages.
According to DownDeTector, the culmination of reports occurred shortly before 12:00. Since then, the situation has appeared to be stabilized, with the number of reports significantly decreasing. So far, Google has not issued an official announcement on the causes of the incident, leaving the origin of the problem unclear.
This incident reminds us of the huge global dependence on Google services, used daily by billions of people. In previous damage, the company had attributed problems to technical issues or infrastructure upgrades. This time, however, no explanation has yet been given.