Turkey’s telecoms authority lifted a two-week-old ban on Twitter on Thursday, after the constitutional court ruled the previous day that the block breached freedom of expression, a spokesman from the office of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said.Access to Twitter was blocked in the runup to last Sunday’s local elections after a stream of leaked recordings of senior officials appeared on the site.
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Turkey’s telecoms authority lifted a two-week-old ban on Twitter on Thursday after the constitutional court ruled the block breached freedom of expression, an official in Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s office said.Access to Twitter was blocked on March 21 in the run-up to local elections last Sunday to stem a stream of leaked wiretapped recordings of senior officials that had appeared on the site, prompting Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to say he would “root out” the network.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/04/03/uk-turkey-twitter-idUKBREA320E320140403Turkey Lifts Twitter Ban After Court Calls It Illegal
The Turkish government unblocked Twitter on Thursday, a day after the country’s highest court ruled that the two-week ban on the social media site violated freedom of expression.Twitter had been blocked in Turkey since March 20, after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “eradicate” the site following the circulation of leaked recordings that implicated him and members of his inner circle in sweeping corruption allegations before local elections, which were held Sunday and resulted in a resounding victory for Mr. Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party.
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