Friday, March 21, 2014

Turkey grapples with legality, implications of Internet ban

Turkey grapples with legality, implications of Internet ban

At midnight March 20, Turkey blocked access to Twitter. The ban came just hours after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a rally in Bursa: “There is now a court order. We will root out Twitter. The international community can say this, can say that. I don’t care at all. Everyone will see how powerful the Republic of Turkey is.”

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