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Turkish Officials Block Twitter - Will Facebook be blocked before the upcoming local elections, too?
Settled on 03/27/2014 19:11 Settled by kruijs
The country’s telecom authority said Thursday it had taken an “administrative measure†against the Google-owned video site, but gave few specifics.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/turkey-blocks-youtube-105104.html
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The Turkish government blocked Twitter on Thursday night after the social media network had been used to spread recordings of telephone conversations and leaked documents that appeared to implicate high-ranking officials and some of their relatives and associates in a widespread corruption investigation.
The shutdown, which Turks began to notice around midnight, occurred 10 days before local elections and came after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Twitter in an election rally in Bursa, a western town, on Thursday, saying that he did not care about international reactions if national security was at stake.
“Twitter, mwitter! We will wipe out roots of all,” Mr. Erdogan declared in a campaign speech before the pivotal elections on March 30. “They say, ‘Sir, the international community can say this, can say that.’ I don’t care at all. Everyone will see how powerful the state of the Republic of Turkey is.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/world/europe/turkish-officials-block-twitter-in-leak-inquiry.html
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