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Turkish Officials Block Twitter - Will Facebook be blocked before the upcoming local elections, too?

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Turkish Officials Block Twitter - Will Facebook be blocked before the upcoming local elections, too?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in Politics » Eastern Europe
Settled on 03/27/2014 19:11 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:Yes Turkish officials have expanded their attack on social media, moving from a blockage of Twitter to a shutdown of YouTube.

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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   Super Userkruijs

Twitter plans to temporarily hide controversial tweets in Turkey to help get its site back up and running in the country, the company announced today.

The Turkish government enacted the ban last week after citizens and others spoke out against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This criticism led Erdogan to convince the government to block access to Twitter, conveniently before a countrywide election to determine new government officials.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/26/twitter-agrees-to-withhold-controversial-tweets-in-turkey-as-it-seeks-to-end-ban/

   Super Userkruijs

After Turkey’s Twitter was apparently disabled, the hashtag #TwitterisblockedinTurkey went supernova, though Twitter is still accessible via the site’s SMS service, which allows Turks to text in a tweet.

From across the world last night, thousands of Twitter users dispatched outraged — and sometimes hilarious — updates and photos touching upon feelings of dismay, humor, resignation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/21/turkey-bans-twitter-and-twitter-explodes/

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