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by **Maximus** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:58 am

Erdogan has blocked it. Now there are no more Turkish twitters.

by **Demonax** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:20 am

Maximus wrote:Erdogan has blocked it. Now there are no more Turkish twitters.

Yes, it's true apparently.

Widespread Twitter outages in Turkey after PM threatens ban

(Reuters) - Twitter users in Turkey reported widespread outages on Friday, hours after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan threatened to shut down the social media platform as he battles a damaging corruption scandal.

Some users trying to open the Twitter.com website were taken to a statement apparently from Turkey's telecommunications regulator (TIB). The statement cited four court orders as the basis for blocking the site, where some users in recent weeks have posted voice recordings and documents purportedly showing evidence of corruption among Erdogan's inner circle.

"Twitter, mwitter!," Erdogan told thousands of supporters at a rally ahead of March 30 local elections late on Thursday, in a phrase translating roughly as "Twitter, schmitter!".

"We will wipe out all of these," said Erdogan, who has said the corruption scandal is part of a smear campaign by his political enemies.

Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

"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," he said in a characteristically unyielding tone.

His office later said in a statement that Erdogan was referring to what it called Twitter's failure to implement Turkish court orders seeking the removal of some links and that they may be left with no option but to ban the platform.

"If Twitter officials insist on not implementing court orders and rules of law ... there will be no other option but to prevent access to Twitter to help satisfy our citizens' grievances," the statement said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/ ... JS20140320

by **bill cobbett** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:23 am

Yes, confirmed in Hurriyet.

Twitter Blocked in Turkey... !!!

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey ... sCatID=338

by **Demonax** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:31 am

bill cobbett wrote:Yes, confirmed in Hurriyet.

Twitter Blocked in Turkey... !!!

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey ... sCatID=338

“Democracy is like a train. You take it where you have to go, and then you get off”.

Erdogan meant it then. :shock:

by **repulsewarrior** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:13 am

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to "ban a ban" imposed on his party's main campaign video after electoral authorities blocked it for misusing national symbols.

The Supreme Electoral Board said the use of the red Turkish flag in the slickly produced minute-long advert, which has appeared on major TV channels, websites and social media, breached campaign guidelines for the March 30 municipal elections.

"Then we will ban that. We will bring a ban to the ban," an infuriated Erdogan was quoted as saying by several Turkish newspapers following a campaign rally late on Wednesday in the northwestern city of Tekirdag.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns- ... 9296.story

...need i make a comment?

by **bill cobbett** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:50 am

Another of the seemingly endless supply of Clowns posing as "ministers" takes to the circus ring.

From Hurriyest with the headline...

Turkish minister warns that companies uncooperative on cyber crime will receive ‘Ottoman slap’

"... Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Binali Yıldırım has warned that authorities which do not cooperate with the government over cyber crimes will receive an “Ottoman Slap” in response. ..."

An "Ottoman Slap" sounds like the sort of thing Boggo gets up to... ???